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Tablets in Foreign Language Education and Blended Learning

Research Project

Project/Area Number 24520639
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Foreign language education
Research InstitutionPrefectural University of Kumamoto

Principal Investigator

LAVIN Richard  熊本県立大学, 文学部, 教授 (70347699)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 吉井 誠  熊本県立大学, 文学部, 教授 (70240231)
Project Period (FY) 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,380,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥780,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Keywordslanguage learning / 外国語教育 / E-learning / Blended learning / M-Learning / m-learning / CALL / blended learning / e-learning / 言語教育
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research was aimed at clarifying ways in which tablet computing devices could be used in language education in Japanese tertiary institutions. As teachers of English classes, the researchers were excited by the possibilities of using iPads and other tablets in our own classes. Working in a humanities faculty with generally limited funding, we wanted to see how easy on a practical level and how pedagogically valuable using tablets would be. As researchers, we were interested in viewing the uses of tablets from the point of view of computer-assisted language learning and mobile learning.
We used a range of software in various classes and activities. These included: preparing and presenting presentations; conducting questionnaires. We found many uses for tablet devices following Puentedura’s SAMR classification.
We consider that new users need to be presented with a menu of activities falling into all categories, and we describe some of these in an e-book to be released soon.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2014 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2013 Research-status Report
  • 2012 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (5 results)

All 2014 2013 Other

All Journal Article (2 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 2 results) Presentation (3 results)

  • [Journal Article] Towards a taxonomy of iPad apps and activities for foreign language education2014

    • Author(s)
      Richard S. Lavin and Makoto Yoshii
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the international conference on education and new learning technologies

      Volume: 6 Pages: 3911-3915

    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] CHALLENGES IN IMPLEMENTING BLENDED LEARNING WITH TABLET DEVICES2013

    • Author(s)
      Richard S. Lavin, Makoto Yoshii
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of ICERI2013

      Volume: 2013 Pages: 2552-2557

    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] Towards a taxonomy of iPad apps and activities for foreign language education2014

    • Author(s)
      Richard S. Lavin
    • Organizer
      ICERI2014
    • Place of Presentation
      バルセロナ、スペイン
    • Year and Date
      2014-07-08
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] CHALLENGES IN IMPLEMENTING BLENDED LEARNING WITH TABLET DEVICES

    • Author(s)
      Richard S. Lavin
    • Organizer
      ICERI 2013
    • Place of Presentation
      Sevilla, Spain
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] CLIL and other content-based approaches to language learning

    • Author(s)
      Richard S. Lavin
    • Organizer
      第21回ESP研究会 (JACET 九州)
    • Place of Presentation
      Kumamoto University, Kumamoto
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report

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Published: 2013-05-31   Modified: 2019-07-29  

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