Different Evaluations of Reading Support System between Foreign Students and Japanese Teachers

• Kato Yukari

Abstract

This research aimed to study the different attitudes and preferences between foreign students and Japanese language teachers in using a reading support e-Learning system. In experiments, 20 language teachers and 22 foreign students used reading e-Learning content on LMS Server (WebClass) and answered a 33-item questionnaire that investigated four factors (e-Contents Effectiveness, Relevance between Modules, Difficulty of New Modules and Positive Perception of Traditional Exercises). Results revealed that foreign students show a positive attitude toward new tasks and explanation with graphics on e-Learning system. They also approved of ordinary language tasks (vocabulary and grammar), that were implemented in Module 1 and Module 2. On the contrary, Japanese teachers indicated difficulty and inadequacy of textual information in new tasks and explanations on e-Learning. They also showed a negative attitude toward ordinary language tasks.

Journal

• International Journal for Educational Media and Technology

  International Journal for Educational Media and Technology 1 (1), 73-84, 2007

  Japan Association for Educational Media Studies

Keywords

• CALL
• WBT
• Japanese language education
• usability
• academic reading

Details

• CRID: 1390001288084980480
• NII Article ID: 130007506035
• DOI: 10.24458/ijemt.1.1_73
• ISSN: 18822290
• Text Lang: en
• Data Source:
  • JaLC
  • CiNii Articles
• Abstract License Flag: Disallowed