‘제스쳐링(gesturing)’을 통한 일본어 동작동사 구현 및 습득을 위한 모바일 어플리케이션 개발

The purpose of this research is to develop a mobile application to search and upload images which use tagging information to create a direct link to the meaning of a word. In this paper, we use the term ‘gesturing’ (as opposed to ‘gesture’) which means ‘movements of the arms and hands and are closely synchronized with the flow of speech’ (McNeil, 1992：11). ‘Gesturing’ differs from ‘gesture’ in the sense that ‘gesturing’ is a process that enables the meaning of a word to be visualized by means of images that are vividly expressed by non-verbal elements such as concrete acts, objects, and tools. The ability to visualize the meaning of a word by way of gesturing can be foreseen to have many educational and learning benefits (especially motional verbs which will be the focus of this research). The images that are being photographed and uploaded by the mobile application developed as a result of this research will be combined with the image database which has already been developed by the meta image search engine (-LEE & HAN (2011)-)