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Elaboration skills in Development of First Year Experience : Based on perspective of elaboration of self and others
Get PDFIncreasing practice time for university presentation class students by implementing large language models (LLM)
Get PDFThis paper is to act as a record of how a large language model (LLM), specifically Chat GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer), can be implemented into a presentation class to assist in creating a more efficient and fruitful course. The current system as a whole cannot process at the speeds that LLMs will change the field of education at all levels. There is a new stage being set and if universities, especially private ones, don’t keep up with these changes society will have a major paradigm shift away from tertiary education. I have been teaching university presentation classes for over 15 years and have always been looking for ways to increase students’ active participation and performance of speaking activities. While active learning and project based learning (PBL) techniques are very useful and have definitely created a dent in how students learn, there are still specific steps in the classroom that keep students from increasing how many presentations they can write and perform in one semester. What I have found is that if students learn how to prompt LLMs and add data sets to fine tune the LLMs, they can utilize the models in a highly personalized way. This can all be done while generating presentations that reflect their thoughts, but will also increase valuable practice time. There are many caveats to this process that must be given special attention and many assumptions that need to be dispelled. If performed properly, this process can offer a win/win for both students and teachers
Early Practice of the Role of Precision in Translation into Japanese in Language Comprehension of Chinese Language Learning
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A Study on Teaching Methods by Using Newspapers in Civics in Junior High Schools and High Schools: Focused on Practical Reports of Newspapers in Education on ‘Comparative Reading’
Get PDFModifying an EFL Course to Accommodate Students with Dyslexic Tendencies
Get PDFUniversity students in Japan may have undiagnosed dyslexia or exhibit dyslexic tendencies (DT) in the foreign language (FL) classroom. However, support for these students has been limited due to the relatively low rate of awareness of dyslexia by teachers of foreign languages and university administration. Examples and descriptions of practical ways in which class materials and assessments can be modified to support university students with DT would be beneficial to FL teachers but is limited in published research. In this paper, I will discuss the results of an action research project I conducted over two years. I modified an existing course in hospitality English in order to support students with DT. Specifically, I adapted supplementary course materials and assessments to align with previously published guidelines. These modifications included formatting changes to supplementary class materials to be more legible and intuitive, and improving fairness in written and verbal assessments. The goal of the paper is to give teachers of foreign languages a practical example of how to efficiently adapt existing course materials to support students with DT
Study Abroad: Past, Present, and Future
Get PDFThe history of study abroad of Japanese students and the reasons for it are complex. There has been a great change in the numbers of students and their reasons for going over the past 200 years. At the current time, the number of students choosing to go abroad from Japan is falling for several reasons, including economic and social, while the number is increasing in other countries. This paper examines the development of study abroad of Japanese from the time of the Meiji restoration to the present day, the reasons for the current fall in interest, and finally, how the students who do go abroad can be supported in their preparation for making the best of their time there