English Writing Support for Japanese EFL Visually-Impaired Learners: A Preliminary Study

摘要

This paper constructed an auditory Writing Support System for Japanese English as a Foreign Language (EFL) visually-impaired learners and reports about the results of user evaluation. Four Japanese visually-impaired Japanese students participated in the study. After the user's test and interview, all of them basically agreed that the system is useful and they would like to use the system for their English study. However, this paper reports that they pointed out that the system would need some important modifications for better operability.