| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
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| Research Abstract |
The author has developed a web-based English Language Learning and Computer Conference System for university-level students, which aids in the organization of course materials on-line and provides a variety of learning and communication tools for the instructor and students. Along with on-line cloze test system, chat rooms and bulletin board system provided synchronous and asynchronous discussions about filling cloze-blanks among Japanese college students as participants of this project.
Although both good readers and poor readers made use of such strategies as passage's main idea, blank-preceding textual contents, blank-subsequent textual contents, idiomatic or phrasal knowledge, structural constraints of sentence, background content schemata, and so on, good readers surpass poor readers in the variety of as well as the number of strategies. Moreover poor readers started learning how to use the strategies and fill in the blanks smoothly with the aid of good readers. From this result, t
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his system worked well as a common ground of Legitimate Peripheral Participation in terms of problem solving as well as discussing cloze answers.
As the development of this study, the writer tried to investigate the record of communication activities on bulletin board system and chat rooms among Japanese students, foreign students in Japan, and students in Asian countries on the occasion of intercultural exchange project in which participants had to discuss various issues in the world and try to find the solution. The result showed that while students are willing to participate in discussions and express a wide range of psychological state, a good facilitator gave responses to make the conversation go smoothly (e.g.I see + [member's name]), expresses his gratitude (e.g.Thanks+[member's name]), confirms (e.g.Oh....do you mean this way would be easy to+[verb]+[object]?) and accelerates (e.g.Please go on.) remarks and comments, gives precise instructions, itemizes the conclusions, and so on. Less
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