JALTAR102206.ppt
CALL and Possibilities of Action Research:
JALT First Annual Joint Tokyo Conference:
“Action Research - Influencing Classroom Practice”
Oct. 22, 2006.
Temple Univ., Tokyo
1. CALL and Possibilities
of Action Research:
A report on a five-year field study of enhancing large
university EFL classes with CALL and Internet technology
http://s.phpspot.org/u/myasuda/
JALT First Annual Joint Tokyo Conference:
“Action Research - Influencing Classroom Practice”
Oct. 22, 2006. Tokyo
YASUDA, Masami,
Kwansei Gakuin Univ.,
October 22, 2006 myasuda@kwansei.ac.jp
Temple Univ., Tokyo
2. 0. Introduction:
Entertainment!?
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Protopage: Web 2.0 panel site
http://www.protopage.com/myasuda
Pandora Music:
Web 2.0 music listening station
http://www.pandora.com/people/myasuda
Presentation link and memo site:
http://myasuda2.hp.infoseek.co.jp/public_html/102206.f/
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3. 0.1. Introduction:
CAI, CALL, e-Learning, WELL
e-Learning:
Network Web based Learning
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CAI: CALL:
Computer Assisted
Computer Assisted Instruction
Language Learning
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4. 0.2 Overview of CALL History*
A: 1960 - 80 B: 1980 - 90 C: 1990 -
1. 行動主義的 1. 認知的/Cognitive 1. 知識構成主義/ Knowledge
Behavioristic 2. 道具としてのコンピュー building
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2. チューターとしてのコ ター Computer
2. コミュニケーション環境としての
ンピューター/ as tools コンピューター/ E-mail, chats,
Tutorial 3. CD-ROM上の学習 Synchronic & asynchronic
3. コンピューター上 教材 / CD-ROMs, communication
の学習教材 / Mac‟s (Computers) 3. 試行錯誤する場/ trials and
Study ware errors, sandbox, playroom
(FD‟s)
1. 閉じた課題 / 1. 半分開いた教材 / 1. 開いた課題 / Open ended task
Standalone Stand-alone half- 2. リサーチ型学習/ Research based
isolated tasks isolated tasks 3. 課題解決型学習/ Task based
2. Drill, pattern- 2. 穴埋め,Cloze, 並び Learning
替え,テキスト再構 4. データ駆動学習/ Data driven
practice
成など /Gap-fill, learning „発見学習?“
Cloze, Unscramble
texts
*境 一三 Sakai ( 2004) CALLの歴史とその今日的意義について, 「e-learning 公開講座」 , 2004年5月13
日 慶應義塾大学日吉ITC. Available on the web Translation mine 4
5. + 0.3 Classroom Research:
Treatment Treatment & Control
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Action Experimental
Research Research
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Control Control
Observation
Interaction
Method
(KJ Method, Analysis
Mindmap)
Adapted from the table in
- Sano(2000), 『アクション・リサーチの
Treatment Jump p. 204
すすめ』to Questionnaire analysis 5
6. 0.4 Professional Development
Plan: Problems
to
Hypotheses,
identify, Observ Explanatory
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ation Questions
(Teacher's, Researcher's)
Action Research
Questions, Inq
uiries, Demand
s for
changes, Belief
Analysis,
systems, etc.
Reflection,
Data & Note
Action Changes, collection, Prot
Public ocols, Journals
Reporting, :
Publishing (Teachers, students)
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7. 1.0 Presentation sub-title:
WELL: Web Enhanced Language Learning:
http://s.phpspot.org/u/myasuda/
Technology for teaching writing
for large Univ. EFL classes in
Japan:
http://myasuda2.hp.infoseek.co.jp/public_html/102206.f/
A 5-year field study:
videos, a group Mailing List,
Groupware on the Internet
YASUDA, Masami,
Skip Abstracts Kwansei Gakuin Univ.,
myasuda@kwansei.ac.jp
October 22, 2006
Temple Univ.,
Tokyo http://myasuda-web.hp.infoseek.co.jp/myindex.html
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8. 2.0 Introduction - L2 writing
Dichotomies/Dilemmas
Fluency and accuracy
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Contrastive rhetoric debate
Process vs. Product debate
Assessment
Feedback and error correction
cf. Casanave, Christine Pearson. (2004) Controversies in
second language writing. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Univ.
of Michigan
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9. 2.1 Kinds of questions to pose
How can we focus on
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meaning
rather than
forms?
Learning English
vs.
Learning about English
The place of
grammar learning and
correction. 9
10. 2.2.1 Kinds of further questions
to pose (2) Individual and autonomy
How can we create
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“autonomous learning” environment
with group work?
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11. 2.3.1 Kinds of questions to
pose (3)
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How can we put
communicative aspects
in classroom -
with or without
the use of E-mails?
Group Dynamics to expect!?
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12. 3.0 “Teaching narrative writing
in large EFL classes”
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I would like, now, to present my
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own experience of “Technology
for teaching narrative writing,”
for oral and written communications
in
"regular" and
large
EFL classes
on a Japanese university level. 12
13. 3.1 The class needs and
purposes
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At the Law Dept, at Kwansei Gakuin
Univ., we offer two classes each for
the two year required English
courses.
Semester system since 1987
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14. 3.2 two kinds of classes for each year
Two: 1) Reading, 2) communication.
credit hours of English
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total to 8 hours out of 16 hours
in foreign language requirements.
the general 'regular' EFL classes.
“English Otsu” in Japanese,
emphasis on oral and written communication.
Adapted:
Video Narrative Writing via E-mail
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15. 3.3 Video Textbooks
A few years with trials and errors
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Adopted a well-received Video
textbook entitled: (Oxford University Press)
Mystery Tour
and
Jericho Conspiracy
Skip lesson plan details and jump to
Final Project: Video narration
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16. 4.0 Examples of actual lesson plans -
90 min.
Cycle - 3 classes to cover two chapters
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Day 1–
Introduction
Preview TF Questions - 5 min.
Preview with digested video - 5 min.
Preview with full version video -10 min.
Comprehension checkups (TF) - 5 min.
Show and stop with
Explanation (Vocabulary, Grammar, Culture)
Questions and Answer drills - 60 min.
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17. 4.1 Examples of actual lesson plans -
90 min. (2)
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Cycle - 3 classes to cover two chapters
Day 2 ( a week after)
Preview with digested video - 5
min.
E-mail grading – via ML - over
the weekend
Group presentation for approved
work 30 min.
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18. 4.2 Examples of actual lesson plans -
90 min. (3)
Cycle - 3 classes to cover two chapters
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Day 3 ( 2 weeks after) - same as Day 1
Group presentation for approved work 30
min.
Quizzes on each chapter: Who said what?
Take home
Final Project
last two weeks –
grading,
recitation,
record
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19. 4.3 Homework - sample work
Error Correction, feedback
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E-mails – Group work
Rewrites until approved
Deadline: Each Friday evening 20:00
Final Project – 8 ½ min. digested
video
Use of stationary file - word processing
Group (All chapters except the last one)
Individual work (last chapter)
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20. 4.4 Homework - sample work (2)
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Course grading
Group and Individual work
Online quizzes
Final exam - only 30%
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21. 4.5 Homework - sample work
separate (3)
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Winning the students’ trust that their
work is being graded with feedback
E-Mail archives
Web-mail (IMAP: Univ. official)
Yahoo Group site:
yahoo.co.jp/mygroups
yahoo.co.jp/group/Eng1z_KGLaw/files/Emails.f/
Index: infoseek. - Emails_all.html
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22. 5.0 Students‟ work: E-mail work
Video narration Video - Separate
video output (OHC)
Audio Recording
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23. 6.0 IT tools -- mostly free!
Internet Browser:
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Internet Explorer - both on
Windows and Macintosh
E-mails
Outlook Web Access, Outlook
Instructor: Eudora Pro on Macintosh
Mailing List: no campus support
Since2002 - started using
Yahoo Group
E-Mail archives: infoseek. - Emails_all.html
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24. 7.0 Servers
Personal files: Students and Instructors
Virtual Server - mail file and other
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documents – can be accessed to from
home, too.
https://webmail.kwansei.ac.jp/
Instructors’ notes, homework files
Only on campus - intranet
Internet Server - off campus -
freeweb provider with FTP - free
server space
myasuda-web.hp.infoseek.co.jp/myindex.html
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25. Mails:
7.1 Outlook Web Access: Web mail
(IMAP),
Personal Files:
https://webmail.kwansei.ac.jp/ Z drives
BBS: Public
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Folders
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26. 7.2 BBS - Bulletin Board
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On-campus BBS
Not quite helpful
Not so useful.
So, instead of school BBS,
FreeBBS service (aaacafe)
Yahoo Group
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29. 7.5 On-line quizzes authoring and
delivery - QUIA and others
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QUIA - (login name: myasuda_kg)
http://www.quia.com/
QUIA - stores students' logs and
grades, but not item answers
Class portal page URL:
http://www.quia.com/pages/masamimystery.html
http://www.quia.com/pages/masamijericho.html
Instructor mode:
http://www.quia.com/servlets/quia.web.QuiaWebManager?tagModuleType=10400
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30. 7.6 Mailing List - pseudo
groupware
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Yahoo eGroup
http://groups.yahoo.co.jp/mygroups
Other BBS - Groupware, etc. (Requires PIN)
http://cgi.f11.aaacafe.ne.jp/~myasuda/treebbs/tree.php?mode=root
画像メモ (Requires PIN)
http://cgi.f3.aaacafe.ne.jp/~myasuda/gazoubbs/gazou.php
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31. 7.7 Final Project
in the final class,
Each student will recite and record
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On cassette tapes
the narrative recitation work,
watching and synchronizing with
an 8 1/2 minute long,
Digested and muted video story.
photos yahoo /Eng1z_KGLaw/slideshow
http://www.voiceblog.jp/myasuda/
Emails_all.html - all the mail exchanges
protected at Yahoo Group site
Return to Video textbook slides 31
32. 7.8 Final Project: Audio
Video Narration – student’s
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audio
Student audio in MP3-shrt (Local)
http://www.voiceblog.jp/myasuda/139636.html (Web)
Jump to Action Research cycle
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33. 8. Questionnaire – Online form
Online questionnaire (Requires PIN) – hit return if error
https://webinfo.kwansei.ac.jp/active/login
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34. 8.1 Questionnaire – Result 7/2004 - 2004 Spring
Freshmen Classes
Excel file: ( n=12) Server: http://myasuda2.hp.infoseek.co.jp/public_html/JALT2005.f/QuestionnaireIZ07310both.xls
Local Excel file :
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38. 9.0. Projects in progress
Weblog Projects:
http://s.phpspot.org/u/myasuda/
http://advcomp.wordpress.com/
RSS feeder in Web 2.0:
http://reader.www.infoseek.co.jp/reader/
Composition grading: Online
Slide show stored at:
http://1458462720.slide.com/
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39. 9.1. Projects in progress (2)
Weblog Projects:
http://s.phpspot.org/u/myasuda/
http://advcomp.wordpress.com/
Students Weblogs and comments
Protected privacy with PINs
http://advcomp.wordpress.com/tag/classblog/
http://myasuda.my.land.to/treebbs/tree.php?n=470
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40. 9.2 Projects in progress (3)
Portfolio: WELL projects:
http://s.phpspot.org/u/myasuda/
http://myasuda2.hp.infoseek.co.jp/p
ublic_html/032205.f/
Audio Projects:
http://wiki.livedoor.jp/myasudakg/d
/MenuBar2
WELL Project
Presentation
2004 and others
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41. 9.3 Projects in progress (4)
AJAX and Web 2.0
http://s.phpspot.org/u/myasuda/
http://advcomp.wordpress.com/tag/web20/
What it is:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Ajax&q=Web2.0
Netvibes and Protopage, etc.
http://www.netvibes.com/
http://myasuda-web.hp.infoseek.co.jp/public_html/eng2z.f/KG-
Netvibes.f/slideshow040906.html
Video on demand
http://myasuda-
web.hp.infoseek.co.jp/public_html/eng1z.f/OneCampus.f/
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