In a traditional kanji teaching class, a new kanji is introduced by showing how it should be written once or twice as an example on the blackboard, and the students practice writing it once or twice. Then they are asked to fill up a line with the kanji in their notebook as homework. When they practice the kanji at home, they can only look at the written results of the kanji in the notebook . Textbooks or dictionaries show how kanji should be written by either putting numbers or arrows, the use of which does not always clearly demonstrate the process of how a kanji is written. QTKanji has the advantage of showing the stroke information visually and allowing the students to study at their own pace.
Students can follow easily by just looking at the screen and using the practice mode.
This practice mode allows the student not only to see how the kanji is written but also to actively write and compare with the model. QTKanji also has the ability to customize certain aspects of its program so that the instructor may more flexibly link QTKanji to a given course curriculum. HyperCard-based KanjiQuiz uses simple multiple choice type recognition questions to test the students achievement on a specific kanji lesson. At the end of each KanjiQuiz, it gives a score with the percentage correct and a list of kanji which the student missed on the quiz. In order to evaluate QTKanji and KanjiQuiz's usefulness in students' acquisition of kanji, a series of studies has been done at Chubu University since 1994.