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Title
Japanese:ピクトグラムを利用した英作文学習の視覚化と改善手法 
English:An Approach to Visualizing and Improving English Composition 
Author
Japanese: 吉澤小百合, 國上真章, 高橋聡, 吉川 厚, 寺野隆雄.  
English: Sayuri Yoshizawa, Masaaki Kunigami, Satoshi Takahashi, atsushi yoshikawa, Takao Terano.  
Language Japanese 
Journal/Book name
Japanese:2012年度日本認知科学会第29回大会発表論文集 
English: 
Volume, Number, Page Vol. 29        pp. 673-680
Published date Dec. 12, 2012 
Publisher
Japanese:日本認知科学会 
English: 
Conference name
Japanese:2012年度日本認知科学会第29回大会 
English: 
Conference site
Japanese:仙台 
English: 
Official URL http://www.jcss.gr.jp/meetings/JCSS2012/
 
Abstract Pictograms are pictorial drawings or representational signs and instructions that can be used without regard to age, sex, and nationality. We conducted an experiment using pictogram networks, in which pictograms are interconnected by arrows. Since each pictogram represents a word, ideas, or concepts, drawing a pictogram network can become a guide to understanding others’ intentions. This collaborative approach, which we named “pict-net abstraction”, is quite useful in foreign language composition education. It makes the participants realize the discrepancies between the writer's intention and the readers' understanding by comparing their pictogram networks and detecting the ambiguity as well as polysemy of an argument. The approach can be applied in a multilingual environment and should be useful in the establishment of a future peer review system.

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