2006 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
The development of international cyber courses to foster International Liberal Arts, and expressive power in English with on-demand Internet courses
| Project/Area Number |
15320073
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Foreign language education
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| Research Institution | Waseda University |
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Principal Investigator |
NAKANO Michiko Waseda University, Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences, Professor, 教育・総合科学学術院, 教授 (70148229)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
TOGO Katsuaki Waseda University, Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences, Professor, 教育・総合科学学術院, 教授 (50103619)
YANO Yasukata Waseda University, Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences, Professor, 教育・総合科学学術院, 教授 (00130857)
MATSUSAKA Hiroshi Waseda University, Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences, Professor, 教育・総合科学学術院, 教授 (20096449)
MURATA Kumiko Waseda University, Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences, Professor, 教育・総合科学学術院, 教授 (10229990)
KOBAYASHI Fukuko Waseda University, Faculty of Education and IntegratedArts and Sciences, Professor, 教育・総合科学学術院, 教授 (00063751)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2003 – 2006
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| Keywords | International Liberal Arts / ICT / On-demand courses / Assessment of Oral English / Assessment of Persuasive Writing in English / Cross-cultural Distance Learning / Asian Englishes / Individual Differences |
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| Research Abstract |
We have developed cross-cultural distance learning courses based on the notion of International Liberal Arts. Our research efforts established 90 on-demand courses which deal with our current issues in the world : climate change, politics and metaphors, safety of food, Asian Identity, gender issues, co-existence in Asia, etc. We have established our teaching methods on successfuldiscussion in English and how to write persuasive discourse in English, especially for Japanese learners of English at the university level. These methods were reported in CCDL Research Reports (CD-ROM) in five volumes as well as CCDL Teachers' Manual and Case studies (2006). Annually, we held International Student Seminars among Asian users of English and we held the seminars recently twice a year in which our students demonstrated the merits of our educational approaches. These activities were financially assisted by Digital Campus Consortium which was initiated by Waseda University and which has been support
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ed by major industries in Japan.
The recommended cyber courses includes the following class-room procedures : (1) the students in Asia study on-demand course materials, (2) they write their comments and questions in English on BBS, (3) our mentors who were trained as interns help the learners understand lecture contents distributed via the Internet, (4) they discuss a given topic on International Liberal arts, using ICT (video-conferencing system and oral chatting system) and (5) the students reflect their progress concerning the on-demand contents and their expressive power in English, by reviewing DVDs which were recorded during their cyber sessions.
We have also tried to show research evidence about our teaching methods, by looking into how to test their progress in oral English, how to evaluate their progress in writing, and how to deal with individual differences such as learning styles, learning strategies, learning preferences, class-room anxiety, speech anxiety and motivations. The oral test of English for the sake of Asian users of English includes word-per minutes, the frequency and length of pauses, type-token ratio, vocabulary levels, inter-stress time intervals and acoustic measurements. This is going to be developed as an automatic assessment system. We have also established automatic assessment of Individual Differences as an additional outcome of our research efforts. Less
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Research Products
(17 results)
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[Journal Article] The development of grammatical competence of Japanese EFL learners : Focusing on relative clause constructions.2006
Author(s)
Ohba, H., Sugino, N., Nakano, M., Yamakawa, K., Shimizu, Y.
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Journal Title
Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics 10, 1
Pages: 73-77
Description
「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
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[Journal Article] The development of grammatical competence of Japanese EFL learners : Focusing on relative clause constructions.2006
Author(s)
Ohba, H., Sugino, N., Nakano, M., Yamakawa, K., Shimizu, Y.
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Journal Title
Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 10, 1
Pages: 73-87
Description
「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
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[Journal Article] Developing a sample-free grammatical proficiency test for SLA research.2006
Author(s)
Shimizu, Y., Yamakawa, K., Sugino, N., Ohba, H., Nakano, M.
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Journal Title
Proceedings of the 10th Conference of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics., 10
Pages: 227-236
Description
「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
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[Journal Article] Acquisition of English grammatical features by adult Japanese EFL learners : The application of Item Response Theory in SLA research.2006
Author(s)
Yamakawa, K., Sugino, N., Ohba, H., Nakano, M., Shimizu, Y.
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Journal Title
Proceedings of CLaSIC, 2
Pages: 942-974
Description
「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
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[Journal Article] A study of evaluation in the speaking ability of Asian learners of English by using FACETS,2006
Author(s)
Nakano, M., Kondo, Y., Ueda, N., Tsutsui, E., Owada, K.
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Journal Title
Proceedings of the 4th Annual Conference of the Japan Association for Reaserch on Testing, 4
Pages: 38-41
Description
「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
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[Journal Article] Networked English language education at Waseda University : Toward creating Asian-Pacific intelligence (1)2006
Author(s)
Nakano, M., Owada, K., Ueda, N., Kodachi, K., Yoshimoto, M., Kondo, Y.
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Journal Title
CCDL Teachers' Manual, 1
Pages: 17-26
Description
「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
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[Journal Article] Networked English language education at Waseda University : Toward creating Asian-Pacific intelligence (II)-CCDL and cyber seminars.2006
Author(s)
Nakano, M., Bonham, M., Owada, K., Ueda, N., Oya, M., Negishi, M., Kondo, Y.
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Journal Title
CCDL Teachers' Manual, 1
Pages: 27-38
Description
「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
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