Providing an Effective Learning Environments: The Impact of Shadowing Task via WBT on EFL Learners’ bottom-up processing skill

Atsuko Kuramoto

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (Oct 26, 2009) pp. 2798–2802

The present paper investigated the impacts of the shadowing task approach via WBT especially on the elementary level EFL (English as a foreign language) learners in Japan, where they have less opportunity to expose to the target language use in...

A facilitating role of Social Network Service for Japanese EFL learners

Atsuko Kuramoto; Toru Ochi; Toyohisa Tsukamoto

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2008 (Nov 17, 2008) pp. 1724–1727

This is an ongoing project to explore and inspect the impacts of SNS for EFL learners whose daily living environment has less communication in English. The research and development phase of an SNS platform for EFL learning with live motion pictures...

The report on developing a prototype system of interactive multi-language stories for children and their preference of its interface

Toru Ochi; Minori Kurahasi; Masafumi Imai; Atsuko Kuramoto

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2017 (Oct 17, 2017) pp. 827–832

The new curriculum guidelines enacted by MEXT in Japan have demonstrated the English Education Reform Plan, which includes the official introduction of compulsory English education at all elementary schools in 2020 We have been developing a digital...

Topics: Content Development, Tools & Systems

The impact of the WBT use for EFL learners' self-fulfillment: a challenge for a waveform viewer using digital tablet

Atsuko Kuramoto; Toru Ochi; Harumi Nishida; Yukari Isobe

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2011 (Oct 18, 2011) pp. 250–256

Abstract: The present paper investigated the effects of WBT (web-based training) use on EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners in Japan, where they have few opportunities to be exposed to the target language in daily life. The ten-week...

What advice is proper for EFL students to improve their comprehension levels?

Atsuko Kuramoto; Toru Ochi; Harumi Nishida; Chie Tsurii

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2012 (Oct 09, 2012) pp. 1827–1832

This paper is a report on the findings of a survey conducted on EFL learners in Japan. We conducted the Japanese Reading Span Test (J-RST) by Osaka (2002), two types of computer-based English comprehension tests, and semi-structured interviews on...