Abstract
LEAP is an online test sets for assessing the language ability of learners of Japanese. This takes about three minutes a part and was based on the concept of SPOT developed at the University of Tsukuba, which was paper-based and asked test takers to fill a hiragana by handwriting in the blanks. The format was, however, changed to a multiple-choice style in the online SPOT. LEAP adopts the original SPOT design and asks test takers to answer by typing romaji (automatically converted into hiragana). It includes 30 questions in a page. In this study, we implemented a system that allows the use of language loading by inputting one or two hiragana characters. As a result, not only did the level of difficulty increase, but differences in scores were also observed according to the ability of Japanese.
