アメリカ高等学校におけるビデオ・コンファレンス日本語教育

抄録

Videoconference is a widely-spreading means of distant learning in the U.S., and two-way interactive communication without audio-visual delay has been made possible by recent fiber-optic technology, which may connect up to 9 classrooms simultaneously during the same session. Although this technology has been introduced in publications from technical perspectives, its applications in foreign language classrooms such as Japanese have not been fully discussed from practical perspectives. An overview of this system will be provided, and its efficacy for a U.S. high school Japanese course will be discussed in terms of teachers' and students' perspectives as well as pedagogical perspectives.