The development of international cyber courses to foster International Liberal Arts, and expressive power in English with on-demand Internet courses

开发国际网络课程，通过点播网络课程培养国际文科和英语表达能力

基本信息

批准号：
15320073
负责人：
NAKANO Michiko
金额：
$ 9.98万
依托单位：
Waseda University
依托单位国家：
日本
项目类别：
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
财政年份：
2003
资助国家：
日本
起止时间：
2003 至 2006
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

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 … More 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

我们根据国际文科概念开发了跨文化远程学习课程，我们的研究工作建立了 90 门按需课程，涉及当今世界的问题：气候变化、政治和隐喻、食品安全、亚洲身份。、性别问题、亚洲共存等。我们建立了成功的英语讨论以及如何用英语撰写说服性话语的教学方法，特别是针对日本大学英语学习者，这些方法在 CCDL 研究中进行了报道。报告（CD-ROM）五卷以及 CCDL 教师手册和案例研究（2006）每年，我们都会在亚洲英语用户中举办国际学生研讨会，最近我们每年举办两次研讨会，让我们的学生展示其优点。这些活动得到了数字校园联盟的资助，该联盟由早稻田大学发起，并得到了日本主要行业的支持。推荐的网络课程包括以下课堂程序：（1）学生在亚洲按需学习课程材料，(2) 他们在 BBS 上用英语写评论和问题，(3) 我们接受过实习培训的导师帮助学习者理解通过互联网分发的讲座内容，(4) 他们讨论给定的内容国际文科主题，使用ICT（视频会议系统和口头聊天系统）；（5）学生通过回顾网络会议期间录制的DVD来反映他们在点播内容和英语表达能力方面的进展.我们还尝试展示研究我们的教学方法的证据，通过研究如何测试他们的口语进步，如何评估他们的写作进步，以及如何处理学习风格、学习策略、学习偏好、课堂焦虑、演讲等个体差异针对亚洲英语用户的英语口语测试包括每分钟单词数、停顿的频率和长度、类型标记比率、词汇水平、重音间间隔和声学测量。我们还建立了自动评估系统。个体差异评估作为我们研究工作的额外成果。