Trial and Evaluation of ICT-supported Collaborative Learning in Foreign Language Classroom

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K02716
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Osaka University
• Principal Investigator: Iwai Hiroki 大阪大学, 全学教育推進機構, 教授 (20213267)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: ビデオ撮影 / 音声認識 / 外国語協調学習 / 多言語例文データベース

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research was to evaluate the effectiveness of a new instructional approach to assist students learning a foreign language by using ICT supports. Students created video projects using 4 parts: (1)use speech-to-text apps (such as Dragon Dictation) to practice pronunciation, (2)create a short conversational script while using multilingual sentence databases (such as Tatoeba Project and Linguee), (3)record videos of themselves, (4)conduct a structured self-evaluation. This instructional method was repeated three times in a 15-week semester.
Students appeared to enjoy this method of learning a foreign language and reported feeling highly motivated by each activity. They enjoyed using multiple technologies to assist their learning, especially the objective feedback.

Free Research Field

ICT支援外国語教授法