How to use this handbook:
(a) If you want to plan your day
Make sure you have the correct program insert sheet (available separately) and look along the time blocks to choose the best sessions for you. If you want to check the relevant summaries, just look up the code number from the block in the handbook here.
(b) If you want to find a session by presenter name
Look in the handbook first - they are listed alphabetically by presenter. Then, find the code number. Look up this code number on the back of the program insert sheets and you can find the day, room number, and time-slot of the desired presentation.
(c) If you want to find a session by session name
Look it up in the alphabetical list of sessions in the back of the handbook. There you will find its code number, and by looking this up on the back of the program insert sheets, you can find the day, room, number, and time-slot of the desired presentation.
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Presentation Abstracts
Abstracts are listed in alphabetical order by presenter's last name.
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Adamson, Charles & Shucart, Stephen
1) CALL and Complexity
Complexity theory has much to say about language learning and acquisition. A recent advance in Complexity Theory called "The Terraced Labyrinth," originally developed as theory describing punctuated evolution, clarifies the differences between learning and acquisition. It also explains why explicit teaching sometimes works but fails at other times. This presentation will describe The Terraced Labyrinth and discuss its implications for CALL.
Charles Adamson has been studying the effect of chaos, complexity, and cybernetics on SLA and is the list owner for chaosla, a mailing list about SLA and complexity.
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Allum, Paul
2) Designing CALL Exercises to Develop Reading Strategies
The presenter shows how he combined TEFL theory on reading strategies with concepts from the human computer interaction literature to develop a CALL exercise to encourage use of good reading strategies. Developing a model in this way may ensure higher usability and more principled compromises when working with the limits of any authoring package. Paul Allum started with HyperCard, and uses WinCALIS, Hot Potatoes, and Study Box. He's interested in interface design and comparative effectiveness of human/computer instruction.
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Ariizumi, Yoshihiko (日本語)
3) 日本語教育におけるCAT（Computerized Adaptive Testing） の応用について
テクノロジーの発展に伴いCATの応用が主要な言語で始まっている。当発表は、CATの日本語への応用を目指し、CATの背景にある測定理論の解説、日本語のように比較的少数の学習 者を元にしながら通常大きなサンプル・サイズを要するCalibrationなどのプロセスへの対処方法、CATの応用による日本語教育の改革等の諸点を論ずる Yoshihiko Ariizumi has been teaching English and Japanese for more than twenty years. He received his PhD in the field of instructional psychology and technology.
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Asada-Grant, Thomas
4) L1 and L2 Writing Improvement Relationships
This study compares university students' improvement in L2 writing through training in "idea clustering" during the prewriting stage with L1 improvement over the same time, but without any instruction. The measurement tools are Jacobs et al (1981) writing scale for the English essays and Hirose and Sasaki's (1999) Japanese writing scale. Students used the computer to record successive stages of their English prewriting organization. Generally the results show a strong correlation between improvement in English writing with that of Japanese. Thomas Asada-Grant is a Lecturer in EFL writing. He has teaching at Daito Bunka Univ for the past 3 years. He has a MS in Curriculum and Instructional Design from San Diego State University, California.
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Awaji, Yoshimasa (日本語)
5) MOOを活用した教室での活動アラカルト
MOOなどのCMC空間が語学教育で活用されはじめて久しいが、WWWやemailに比べるとまだまだ敷居が高く、授業や�?外指導でどのように活 用できるのか分かりにくい。このワークショップでは、MOOの使い方を改めて分かりやすく実習し、授業での活用例をシミュ レーションしながら授業での活用を検討する。 MOOing Classroom Activities A La Carte
Summary: It has been a while since MOO was first applied to language
learning, but it is not yet clear and easy to understand how MOOing can
be used in classrooms and extra curricular activities, compared to other
services such as WWW or e-mail. This workshop aims to demonstrate the
basics of MOOing, to experience various activities using MOOing, and to
discuss how it is incorporated in our daily teaching. Yoshimasa Awaji has taught English to Japanese students at high school and college levels since 1993 and has been an administrative member of schMOOze University since 1995. He founded saMOOrai, another EFL MOO for Japanese students.
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Bachnik, Jane (Featured Speaker)
6) Do IT Yourself Technical Support Services and the IT Revolution in Japanese Education
This paper examines roadblocks to the IT revolution in Japanese higher education. The focus will be on the lack of faculty IT support in Japanese universities, including both technical and instructional support. The paper will examine social/structural factors creating this lack, compare development of support services in Japan and the US, develop the consequences of these lacks in Japanese organizations, and discuss the prognosis for overcoming the IT support barrier. Jane Bachnik is an anthropology professor at NIME, where she produces software for teaching cross-cultural awareness on the Web. Her 30-year research in Japan spans subjects of family, self, society, and barriers to implementing IT in education.
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Barfield, Andy, Dycus, D., & Betts, R. (FLL SIG)
7) Online Newspapers in the Reading Class
As an aid for helping teachers find and use reading texts, computers can serve the dual functions of providing an excellent access-and-delivery system for online texts and providing a platform on which programs can be run to assess articles for suitability to student level. However, all the technology in the world is wasted without a pedagogical motivation for choosing texts and using programs to manipulate them, and without understanding clearly what students' typical reading strategies are and how they evaluate their own strategic reading flexibility. This presentation will explore using the WWW to find one kind of text, the online newspaper article, as well as various software programs to assess or manipulate these texts with the pedagogical focus of the reading lesson in mind. The session will also examine interesting ways to better understand students' foreign language reading strategies and preferences.
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Bauman, John, Yamada, J., Oda, E., Fujisaki, Y., & Okamoto, N.
8) The Discourse Features of Computer-Mediated Communication in Japanese
Research in English has shown that Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) represents a new register incorporating features of both written and spoken English, as well as some features unique to CMC. To what extent is this true in Japanese? This presentation will review current studies of CMC, both English and Japanese, and will present some data based on a corpus of Japanese email. John Bauman is a corporate trainer and university teacher in Tokyo. He has studied the use of email in business settings. Eri Oda is a teacher of Japanese at the Yamano Japanese Language school. She is interested in the features of CMC in Japanese. Yuri Fujisaki recently graduated from Tokyo International University and has presented on the discourse of Japanese CMC for the Association for Business Communication and elsewhere. Noriko Okamoto is an associate professor of Japanese at Tokyo International University.
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Berberich, Frank
9) Basic Techniques of Artificial Intelligence
Get a flavor of what Artificial Intelligence (AI) is about with hands-on experience. Learn and apply some techniques of AI to text-processing tasks such as translation, poetry-writing, and conversation. Explore a simple AI conversation application in CALL. Some familiarity with the Excel spreadsheet program would be helpful, especially if not comfortable with the Japanese version. Frank Berberich teaches English and computers in English and Japanese. He has been professionally and academically involved in computers since 1969 and has written several artificial intelligence applications.
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Betts, Robert, Barfield, A., & Dycus, D. (FLL SIG)
7) Online Newspapers in the Reading Class
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Books, Marilyn
10) Collaborative Mini-Thesis Writing Via LANs
This presentation will be a demonstration of how a techno-challenged instructor guided equally low-tech students to produce standard format papers in small groups using Local Area Networks as their medium of communication and collaboration. The classes were "freshpersons" with little experience in writing English and no experience in academic writing. Marilyn Books is a relative newcomer to IT but not to Japan. She is a professor at Miyazaki Municipal University teaching intercultural communication and web-based writing and reading.
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Britto, Francis
11) Sort Right
This presentation introduces RLSort, a freeware program I wrote for making lists of words, Kanjis, and sentences from an ASCII passage and for sorting texts from left to right or from right to left. It can be used for finding eye-rhymes, sorting URLs by domain names, and counting word frequencies. He will show how to download it and how to use it. Francis Britto is a professor at Sophia University where he teaches computer-related subjects and sociolinguistics. He has given presentations of his programs in JALT and other conferences. He has contributed to journals and newspapers.
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Britto, Francis & Iwasaki, Masahiro
12) Hanabi Taikai: Web-based Japanese Lessons Produced by Students
This presentation, by a professor and a student, introduces "Hanabi Taikai," a set of three Web-based lessons, produced by students in a CALL class. Each lesson consists of a short dialog, a cultural quiz, and a grammar quiz, and offers vocabulary and translation assistance. Although the teacher gave advice, ideas, and suggestions, the students themselves planned and executed the project. This presentation may be of interest to teachers of Japanese and of CALL courses. Francis Britto (as above)
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Breen, Jim (Featured Speaker)
13) A WWW Dictionary and Word Translator: Threat or Aid to Language Acquisition?
For 10 years, Jim Breen has been compiling Japanese-English electronic dictionary files (now over 300,000 entries) and dictionary-related software for common computer platforms. His popular WWW-based dictionary, which combines traditional Eiwa and Kanwa-jiten facilities into one system that automatically translates words in Japanese text and WWW pages. This presentation will describe the project, the files, and software, and demonstrate the WWW dictionary server. Jim Breen is a visiting professor at the Institute for the Study of the Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
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Cates, Kip, Teaman, B., Hinkelman, D., McInnes, D., & Urbain, O. (GILE SIG)
14) Global Issues, CALL, and the Internet
Official GILE SIG Roundtable. This "bridging panel discussion," sponsored by JALT's "Global Issues" Special Interest Group (GILE SIG), features a team of global education language teachers who will discuss the teaching of global issues as it relates to CALL. Topics touched on will include themes such as CALL teaching methodology for global issues, global education computer software, global issues on the Internet, and international understanding through electronic exchanges. Kip A. Cates teaches English at Tottori University and is the chair of GILE SIG. Brian Teaman teaches English at Hiroshima University and is the webmaster for GILE SIG. Don Hinkelman teaches English at Sapporo Gakuin University and is the Hokkaido representative for JALT's GILE SIG. Donna McInnis teaches courses on peace and global issues at Soka University, Tokyo, and is chair of the "TESOLers for Social Responsibility" TSR caucus. Olivier Urbain teaches courses on global issues at Soka University, Tokyo, and has designed an online "Art and Peace" course for Transcend Peace University.
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Chen, Chinfen
15) Thematic, Collaborative EFL/ESL Learning on the Internet
This project is intended to be a student-centered, theme/project-based, Internet-integrated collaborative learning mode for ESL/EFL learning for intermediate English learners. In this cross-disciplinary learning program, students are required to conduct a literature survey on chosen themes on the Internet, analyze the data they collect, discuss in groups, present their report orally in class, share with the other six global learning partners through email, and finally release their work on the website specially designed for this project. Chinfen Chen is an assistant professor of National Taipei Teachers College, with MA in Interactive Technology on Education from Harvard University in 1990 and ED.D. on Instructional Technology in TESOL from the University of Massachusetts, 1998.
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Chen, Hao-Jan Howard
16) Assessing the Qualities of ESL Speech Recognition Programs
This paper examines six pieces of software featuring speech recognition technologies with reference to a set of evaluation criteria recommended by Maxine Eskenazi (1999). The programs include Caroline in the City (Hebron), CNN Interactive English (Hebron), English Comprehensive Learning Series (Syracuse), TeLL Me More Pro (Auralog), TRACI-TALK (CPI), and Encarta Interactive English (Microsoft). Based on a thorough comparison of these CD-ROM titles, we can better identify the possible contributions, limitations, and potentials of speech recognition technologies in second language teaching and learning. Hao-Jan Howard Chen is associate professor at National Taiwan Ocean University. His research interests include second language acquisition and Computer-Assisted Language Learning.
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Chongapiratanakul, Banjert
17) The Computer and Students' Writing Creativity
The great challenge for instructors is to encourage engineering students to write creatively. Many times, they come up with common old ideas or topics. The presenter has found a better way to help facilitate them with a computer program created to serve this particular purpose called "Original Work." The presenter will use PowerPoint to demonstrate the software development, how to use it meaningfully by both instructors and learners, feedback and suggestions for better use, and the other findings. Banjert Chongapiratanakul, D.Ed. in Instructional Systems from The Pennsylvania State University, USA, is currently an English language lecturer both in undergraduate and graduate level at Suranaree University of Technology.
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Cinemre, Yasar
18) The Perception of Word Guessing Strategies of Turkish Readers in the First Language (Turkish) and Foreign Language (English)
Considering the tremendous increase in vocabulary development in the first language, and the relatively slow process of increase in vocabulary learning a foreign language, it is worthwhile trying to find out the differences and similarities in the word guessing processes during reading. This paper aimed at comparing the reader efforts in trying to assign a meaning to unknown words in the first and second language texts. This study indicated that the lack of comprehension of the English text does not mainly come from the insufficient knowledge of the foreign language itself, but from a lack of applying necessary reading comprehension strategies. Yasar Cinemre has been an assistant professor in the English Language and Literature Department of Blacksea Technical University in Trabzon, Turkey, since 1986. He did his PhD in ELT in the UK between 1993 and 1997.
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Cisar, Lawrence
19) A CALL Workshop
This workshop will have you look at Hot Potatoes 5.0 and WordDragon, along with other programs. You will learn how to create CALL material for yourself and others. And you will have fun. Lawrence Cisar is The Bear and has been involved in more things involving computers than he wants to remember.
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Collins, Anthony & Barlex, James (Commercial: Towry Law)
20) Low Risk Investment Strategies
This talk will focus on three areas: An introduction to Towry Law and the services it provides, some general Principles of Financial planning, and the construction of a balanced portfolio. Towry Law regularly hosts seminars in embassies and chambers of commerce in many different countries and attendees have found our presentations to be relevant and informative. Tony Collins and James Barlex are account managers at Towry Law International, the oldest and largest Independent Financial Advisor in Asia.
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