Shinsho Library is a self-access reading support system developed for advanced Japanese reading. In this study 17 participants were required to read at their own pace eight kinds of authentic texts using this system during a period of three weeks in their real learning environments. From the results of the pre- and post tests, as well as the data of their learning process, questionaires, and an interview, the following results were observed. 1) There was no significant difference in their reading comprehension; however, vocabulary and reading speed showed a tendency to progress. 2) Self-learning does not always lead the learners to effective learning activities. Thus, it is necessary to prepare guidelines of effective learning for them. 3) It is strongly suggested that L1 vocabulary explanation and vocal presentation of the text be added to the system. The necessity for supplementary materials, and the proper role of teachers, and recommended improvements in the system are also discussed.

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This study examined the influence of two TV programs about environment on undergraduates and primary school children. The authors tried to clarify the effect of the preceding TV programs on the scene appeal of the succeeding one and on organizing knowledge structure. Two programs from Close Up GENDAI(NHK GTV) and one from 3-2-1 CONTACT produced by CTW for 8-12 age children were examined, Those programs describe "garbage problem" as a theme but are different in their structures. In experiments, 137 subjects randomly assigned to two groups watched these two programs in succession; each group watched each Close Up GENDAI first, then 3-2-1 CONTACT. They answered the questionnaire consisted of the scene appeal test and the image mapping test in 15 minutes. The image mapping test was adopted to measure their knowledge structures. By giving the same questions to undergraduates and primary school children, the difference of the developmental stage mapping. Results didn't support the idea that the scene appeal of the succeeding TV program was restricted by the preceding one. However knowledge structure was significantly affected by the preceding. This effect on school children was larger than that on undergraduates.

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In the practical field of teaching, audio-visual teaching materials using personal computers have been developed, and students are assigned to produce some brief teaching materials in their study of the theory of educational method. This paper is to introduce the process of the development of audio-visual teaching materials whose subjects is Ohm's law demanding the relation between electric current and voltage, in the experiment of the first science field in junior high school, and clear up the learning effect using these teaching materials.

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A study on teacher's cognition have three aspects of instructional design, practice and evaluation. This paper analyzed teacher's cognition on instructional design based on educational TV program. Analized objects are both the lesson plan that teachers design and teacher's utterance of interview. are clarified The result offers information of TV program and teacher's intention in use, and tactices in concrete guide scene.

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As a learning strategy for expediting students' knowledge of a second language, a simple, yet effective, method to enhance total comprehension and foster retentiveness of class material while simultaneously promoting computer literacy is suggested. The process involved in developing this so-called Roundtrip Method includes inputting English song lyrics in Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) format on personal computers and linking selected keywords from the song lyrics to their respective Japanese meanings and original English sentences based on the keywords. Translation of the song lyrics into Japanese and subsequent re-translation into English is an inextricable feature that rounds out the process. And, after this somewhat mechanical translation/retranslation aspect of the process, composing an original summary in Japanese of the overall meaning of the song based on an initial English dictation and subsequently recomposing it back into an original English summary completes the process. This method also boasts employment of the full use of the senses of sound, sight, and touch. Students are aurally tasked with a dictation exercise and administered a cloze-type (fill-in-the-blanks) listening exercise, and as the process initially involves the use of a text and then constant use of a personal computer thereafter, eyes and hands become indispensable in completing the process. Furthermore, this hands-on method also affords the luxury of individualized teacher-to-student attention as well as student-to-student communication in achieving its desired result. Working alone or in groups, and having been assigned with well-defined, mechanical objectives, the students easily focus on their projects leaving the instructor free to devote attention to each and every individual or group as warranted. This paper will examine the procedures utilized in developing this original Roundtrip Method and demonstrate the components of the process giving brief examples of work by students involved in its genesis. Observations by the students and instructors will be offered as well as suggestions for its effective use.

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This paper describes a study of human-interface techniques for video programs using multiple camera angles which has been developed at the National Institute of Multimedia Education (NIME) for teacher education video programs. The videos are taken by more than one camera in a classroom in genenal. To develop a video program, the movie director has to edit video tapes choosing camera angles; however, it is not necessary to edit video tapes in this way. since it is possible to record and simultaneously view all camera angles using DVD-Video, With the use of DVD-Video, NIME has been developing instructional materials for teacher education. In this study, the author developed human interface techniques for multiple camera angles and analyzed the operation logs. Based on these results, the author proposed several video techniques for multiple camera angles.

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The purpose of the present study was to investigate the curriculum and media in schools, which are grappling with the classroom for new Comprehensive Study Resource materials on the curriculum and the use of the media in an environment education designated for the elementary schools were collected for this research. The change of the curriculum and the way of the use of the media has been investigated in the research bulletin for three years. After seve val factors were examined independently, the relations between them were considered. The analysis confirmed that as the curriculum was changing from a single subject model to a related-subjects model, and classroom for Comprehensive Study Time represented a unified model. With regard to media, it became clear that within this curriculum change, the media were also changing from the teaching materials presented by teachers to the learning materials used by children.

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Multiple literacies can be better conceptualized as elements subsumed under the broad and flexible umbrella of literacy. Multiple literacies have been called technology literacy, information literacy, visual literacy, media literacy, and so on. Students increasingly use new tools both to receive and transmit messages of digital information critically, purposes of new media education in digital world is to promote multiple literacies for students.

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An experiment on the personal distance learning by the use of video-phone was investigated at Katsuraomura- multimedia- village, wherein four hundreds and seventy of all residential families were temporarily installed video-phone for three years from 1998 with the intention of daily use. It was found that the personal distance learning by the use of video-phone was fairly acceptable for the student, but a marked characteristic of study at home was observed as not a little decrease in power of concentration.

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"Research Learning", letting children themselves do researches and interviews, is becoming more popular. A possible option for the method would be active use of visual media. This research, first of all, establishes a model representing the relationship between learners and visual media, and then reconstructs the course of a lesson given by a visual media expert, using NHK TV program "KAGAIJUGYO : YOKOSO-SENPAI (Extracurricular Lessons: Welcome Seniors)" as a material. Pointing out the teaching strategies formulated in the lesson plan, it breaks down the strategies according to the model described.

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