The Association between the Score and the Vocabulary in the Waka Essay by High School Student with Waka Learning System

We were allowed to examine the Waka essays (below: ’Kanshoubun’) of high school students studying language arts. The Kanshoubun is about understanding works of art. Waka is a Japanese fixed-form poem. We focused on the association between Kanshoubun scoring results and the vocabulary used in the Kanshoubun. We found that there is correlation between scoring results and the vocabulary used in the Kanshoubun, and also the students become to use more words by Wakaton, new learning method proposed by authors.Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems 19th Annual Conference, KES-2015, Singapore, September 2015 Proceeding