Oral presentation at AsiaTEFL, 2016.7.2.

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An Improvement and Practice of
Bilingual Sentence
Flashcard Maker
by KAMIYA Kenichi & KIM Sunmi

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Agenda
1. What is Bilingual Sentence Flashcard Maker?
2. Background of Development of Bilingual Sentence Flashcard Maker
3. Six digital teaching tools / Four slide show presentation tools
4. The reason we use database software, not PowerPoint
5. About the minimum equipment
6. Recent improvement of Bilingual Sentence Flashcard Maker
7. DEMO
8. Simple Research
9. Future of Bilingual Sentence Flashcard Maker

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What is
Bilingual Sentence Flashcard Maker?

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What is Bilingual Sentence Flashcard
Maker? – all of these from one source!

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What is Bilingual Sentence Flashcard
Maker? – all of these from one source!

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What is Bilingual Sentence Flashcard
Maker? – all of these from one source!

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What is Bilingual Sentence Flashcard
Maker? – all of these from one source!

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What is Bilingual Sentence Flashcard
Maker? – all of these from one source!

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What is Bilingual Sentence Flashcard
Maker? – all of these from one source!

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What is Bilingual Sentence Flashcard
Maker? – all of these from one source!

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What is Bilingual Sentence Flashcard
Maker? – This is the one source!

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What is Bilingual Sentence Flashcard Maker? –
Source Sample stored in a spreadsheet
format – each line can be shown like these!

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What is Bilingual Sentence Flashcard
Maker? – Main Screen

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Background of Development of the
Bilingual Sentence Flashcard Maker

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Background of the Development of the
Bilingual Sentence Flashcard Maker
 Originally, Bilingual Sentence Flashcard Maker was one of
the software supported by JSPS KAKENHI GRANT. (Number
24520675, 26370680, 26370883)
 JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 24520675, Activation of
Beginners-level Foreign Language Classroom and
Facilitation of Presenting Digital Teaching Material
Utilizing Database Software, was a collaborative project
consisted of 12 teachers (later 14 teachers) of 7 languages
(later 9 languages) which mainly aimed at Minimum
equipment, Maximum learning effect.

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Six digital teaching tools were developed
by the presenter himself.
① Conjugation Presentation Tool(s)
② Bilingual Sentence Flashcard Maker
③ Multiple-Choice Quiz Generator
④ Sentence Transformation Presenter
⑤ Phrase Reading Worksheet Generator
⑥ Flashcard App for iOS Device
(depending on how to count 16 tools altogether! Also I’ve developed 8 more software!)

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Four of them are for slide show presentation
- used for showing educational materials.
① Conjugation Presentation Tool(s)
② Bilingual Sentence Flashcard Maker
③ Multiple-Choice Quiz Generator
④ Sentence Transformation Presenter
⑤ Phrase Reading Worksheet Generator
⑥ Flashcard App for iOS Device

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Only two of them have been translated into
English. (I left them over for my future work )
① Conjugation Presentation Tool(s)
② Bilingual Sentence Flashcard Maker
③ Multiple-Choice Quiz Generator
④ Sentence Transformation Presenter
⑤ Phrase Reading Worksheet Generator
⑥ Flashcard App for iOS Device
+ Cloze Generator supported by my previous grant money.

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They are developed using database
software.
 Why not PowerPoint?
 Must prepare all the slide pages to use beforehand
 Not easy to choose slide pages to use (→ preparing is a hard work)
 Not easy to change an order of sequence (→ not flexible)
 Why database software?
 Don’t have to prepare all the slide pages to use beforehand
 Easy to manage data and layout separately (→ multi-purpose use)
 Easy to control what we want to show (→ flexible use)

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What is the Minimum Equipment?
 The software (Bilingual Sentence Flashcard Maker)
 PC, Mac or iPad
 Projector and Screen
Activation of Foreign Language Classroom Comes True!

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What is the recent improvement of
Bilingual Sentence Flashcard Maker?
 English version available.
 iOS version available.
 Fixed some bug.
 Started providing not only English-Japanese
sample files, but also English-Korean version.
…That’s all.

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OK, then, what can we teachers do for
our students?
 This software aims at ways, which are never able to
accomplish with chalk and blackboard, ordinary tools
for teaching.
 Reading sentence aloud together is one of the basic
method to learn a foreign language. But a “Repeat
after me” method does not always work in your
classroom.
 It depends on your idea! Let’s see DEMO.

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DEMO

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Research

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Survey – Was this practice effective for
you? What did you think about this tool?
93%
7%
Positive Negative
• Research Settings
• 8-week intensive English grammar course for lower-
level college students, beginning with “I am a
student.”
• Continuous 3 hours per week
• Started this April with freshmen mainly (FYI:
Japanese schools usually start on April.)
• Using sentence-composition-based textbook (with
story of the Titanic), which contains 553 sentences
• Each week about 40 sentences chosen from 60-80
sentences, using 1-by-1 with translation layout
• Preparation needed (To write down one time all
assigned area on the textbook is necessary, but
students have answers.)
• Free writing comments with signature on the 4th
week
N=61
Positive=57
Negative=4
(Negative with reasonable
comment=2 )

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Survey – Was this practice effective for
you? What did you think about this tool?
93%
7%
Positive Negative
• Negative Comments *translation by the author
• Too many sentences!
• Takes too much time!
• Positive Comments (some of them – better ones
come first :)
• I think it’s a good practice, because when
writing I can do much better, but I can’t do
it enough when speaking. Without speaking,
I don’t feel I can understand English. This
tool shows where I need to practice shifting
from Japanese to English.
• I need to think all the time which word
comes next.
N=61
Positive=57
Negative=4
(Negative with reasonable
comment=2 )

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Survey – Was this practice effective for
you? What did you think about this tool?
93%
7%
Positive Negative
• Positive Comments (continued)
• It’s very effective in reconfirming grammar
when we have done preparation.
• It‘s very difficult to compile English words and
phrases into sentences in a flash. I think this
tool is very effective on practicing this.
• It’s also effective for checking pronunciation.
• I believe reading aloud is effective practice.
• I enjoy this practice.
• I need this practice for my future.
• I feel this practice is a kind of warm up for
English classes.
• It’s effective because it stimulates my brain.
• This software gives me instantaneous force.
N=61
Positive=57
Negative=4
(Negative with reasonable
comment=2 )

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What We Want to Do in the Future – for
Bilingual Sentence Flashcard Maker
 Compiling the User’s manual – especially
describing how to use effectively
 Adding some other functions
 …Please give us your ideas! 

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Any Questions & Comments?
1. What is Bilingual Sentence Flashcard Maker?
2. Background of Development of Bilingual Sentence Flashcard Maker
3. Six digital teaching tools / Four slide show presentation tools
4. Why not PowerPoint? / Why database software?
5. About the minimum equipment
6. Recent improvement of Bilingual Sentence Flashcard Maker
7. DEMO + other functions
8. Research
9. Future of Bilingual Sentence Flashcard Maker

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Thank you!
KAMIYA, Kenichi kamiya@ip.oit.ac.jp