Investigation on use of web-based conferencing tools for intercultural communication competence development

• Project/Area Number: 24652119
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Osaka University
• Principal Investigator: BYSOUTH Don 大阪大学, その他の研究科, 助教 (20603129)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 池田 佳子 関西大学, 国際部, 准教授 (90447847)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2014-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2013)
• Budget Amount: ¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000); Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
• Keywords: ICTを活用した国際教育 / 会話分析 / エスノメソドロジー / ビデオ会議 / マルチモーダル分析 / 遠隔授業 / 国際交流 / 異文化コミュニケーション / ICTを活用した言語教育

Research Abstract

The key general purpose of the study was to investigate how students can be afforded opprotunities to cultivate "global competence" or "intercultural skills" when engaging in English language interactions. In practical terms the study examined the utility of ICT to promote such competence or skills, and to explore how different forms of teaching practice might impede or promote learning when undertaken using ICT.
Regular Skype group video meetings were conducted with groups of three to four student participants located in different countries. Sessions were conducted weekly or biweekly, and groups met between four and eight times over the course of a 15 week semester.

Research Products

• [Presentation] Cross-cultural epistemic displays in multiple participant synchronous video-mediated interactions (2014)
  • Author(s): Bysouth, Don & Ikeda, Keiko
  • Organizer: Skype Connections and the Gaze of Friendship and Family
  • Place of Presentation: Microsoft Research Cambridge, Cambridge. United Kingdom
  • Year and Date: 2014-06-03
• [Presentation] Online means audience : Turning the students'perspectives outward to the world (2014)
  • Author(s): Ikeda, Keiko & Bysouth, Don
  • Organizer: 6^<th> Annual COIL Conference. Reimagining Education : Can Collaborative Online International Learning be Normalized
  • Place of Presentation: Centre for Collaborative Online International Learning, SUNY Global Center, SUNY, New York, New York. USA
  • Year and Date: 2014-03-21
• [Presentation] インフォーマル学習を捉える--媒介物(メディア)と、空間と、相互行為に着目して-- (2014)
  • Author(s): 池田佳子、岩崎千晶、バイサウス・ドン
  • Organizer: 日本語を母語あるいは第二言語とする者による相互行為に関する総合的研究第5回研究発表会
  • Place of Presentation: Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido. Japan
  • Year and Date: 2014-03-17
• [Presentation] Sequential task constraints and affordances in computer mediated video interactions (2014)
  • Author(s): Bysouth, Don
  • Organizer: Conversation Analysis Workshop
  • Place of Presentation: Kansai University, Suita City, Osaka. Japan
  • Year and Date: 2014-03-15
• [Presentation] Conversation analysis across borders (2014)
  • Author(s): Bysouth, Don, Greer, Tim, Ikeda, Keiko Leyland, Chris
  • Organizer: JALT2014 : Conversations across borders. 40^<th> Annual international conference on language teaching and learning & education materials exhibition
  • Place of Presentation: Tsukuba International Congress Center, Tsukuba, Japan
• [Presentation] Online means audience: Turning the students’ perspectives outward to the world. (2014)
  • Author(s): Ikeda, Keiko & Bysouth, Don
  • Organizer: 6th Annual COIL Conference. Reimagining Education: Can Collaborative Online International Learning be Normalized?
  • Place of Presentation: ニューヨーク州立大学グローバルセンター
• [Presentation] 「インフォーマル学習」を捉える--媒介物（メディア）と、空間と、相互行為に着目して-- (2014)
  • Author(s): 池田佳子、岩崎千晶、バイサウスドン
  • Organizer: 日本語を母語あるいは第二言語とする者による相互行為に関する総合的研究第５回国立国語研究所研究発表会
  • Place of Presentation: 北星学園大学
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Sequential task constraints and affordances in computer mediated video interactions. (2014)
  • Author(s): Bysouth, Don
  • Organizer: 2014 Conversation Analysis Data Session / Workshop
  • Place of Presentation: 関西大学
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Cross-cultural epistemic displays in multiple participant synchronous video-mediated interactions. (2014)
  • Author(s): Bysouth, Don, Ikeda, Keiko.
  • Organizer: Skype Connections and the Gaze of Friendship and Family.
  • Place of Presentation: イギリス マイクロソフト・ケンブリッジ
• [Presentation] Interaction in the ICT-enhanced ecology : A case study of Japanese as a second language classroom (2013)
  • Author(s): Ikeda, Keiko, Brandt, Adam & Bysouth, Don
  • Organizer: Thinking, Doing, Learning : Usage Based Perspectives on Second Language Learning
  • Place of Presentation: Second Language Research Center, University of Southern Denmark, Odense. Denmark
  • Year and Date: 2013-04-25
• [Presentation] Interaction in the ICT-enhanced ecology: A case study of Japanese as a second language classroom. (2013)
  • Author(s): Ikeda, K, Brandt, A., Bysouth, D.
  • Organizer: Thinking, Doing, Learning: Usage Based Perspectives on Second Language Learning
  • Place of Presentation: 南デンマーク大学、オデンセ
• [Book] Japanese and English as lingua francas : Language choices for international students in contemporary Japan. In Language Alternation, Language Choice and Language Encounter in International Education (2013)
  • Author(s): Ikeda, Keiko & Bysouth, Don
  • Publisher: H. Haberland, D. Lonsmann, and B. Preisler
• [Book] Japanese and English as lingua francas: Language choices for international students in contemporary Japan. InLanguage Alternation, Language Choice and Language Encounter in International Education. H. Haberland, D. Lonsmann, and B. Preisler (Eds.) (2013)
  • Author(s): Ikeda, K., Bysouth, D.
  • Total Pages: 241
  • Publisher: Springer