an improvement and practice of bilingual sentence flashcard maker

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An Improvement and Practice of

Bilingual Sentence

Flashcard Makerby KAMIYA Kenichi & KIM Sunmi

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Agenda

1. What is Bilingual Sentence Flashcard Maker?

2. Background of Development of Bilingual Sentence Flashcard Maker

3. Six digital teaching tools / Four slide show presentation tools

4. The reason we use database software, not PowerPoint

5. About the minimum equipment

6. Recent improvement of Bilingual Sentence Flashcard Maker

7. DEMO

8. Simple Research

9. Future of Bilingual Sentence Flashcard Maker

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What is

Bilingual Sentence Flashcard Maker?

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What is Bilingual Sentence Flashcard

Maker? – all of these from one source!

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Maker? – This is the one source!

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What is Bilingual Sentence Flashcard Maker? –

Source Sample stored in a spreadsheet

format – each line can be shown like these!

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Maker? – Main Screen

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Background of Development of the

Bilingual Sentence Flashcard Maker

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Background of the Development of the


Originally, Bilingual Sentence Flashcard Maker was one of

the software supported by JSPS KAKENHI GRANT. (Number

24520675, 26370680, 26370883)

JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 24520675, Activation of

Beginners-level Foreign Language Classroom and

Facilitation of Presenting Digital Teaching Material

Utilizing Database Software, was a collaborative project

consisted of 12 teachers (later 14 teachers) of 7 languages

(later 9 languages) which mainly aimed at Minimum

equipment, Maximum learning effect.

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Six digital teaching tools were developed

by the presenter himself.

① Conjugation Presentation Tool(s)

② Bilingual Sentence Flashcard Maker

③ Multiple-Choice Quiz Generator

④ Sentence Transformation Presenter

⑤ Phrase Reading Worksheet Generator

⑥ Flashcard App for iOS Device(depending on how to count 16 tools altogether! Also I’ve developed 8 more software!)

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Four of them are for slide show presentation

- used for showing educational materials.






⑥ Flashcard App for iOS Device

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Only two of them have been translated into

English. (I left them over for my future work )






⑥ Flashcard App for iOS Device

+ Cloze Generator supported by my previous grant money.

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They are developed using database

software.

Why not PowerPoint?

Must prepare all the slide pages to use beforehand

Not easy to choose slide pages to use (→ preparing is a hard work)

Not easy to change an order of sequence (→ not flexible)

Why database software?

Don’t have to prepare all the slide pages to use beforehand

Easy to manage data and layout separately (→ multi-purpose use)

Easy to control what we want to show (→ flexible use)

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What is the Minimum Equipment?

The software (Bilingual Sentence Flashcard Maker)

PC, Mac or iPad

Projector and Screen

Activation of Foreign Language Classroom Comes True!

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What is the recent improvement of

Bilingual Sentence Flashcard Maker?

English version available.

iOS version available.

Fixed some bug.

Started providing not only English-Japanese

sample files, but also English-Korean version.

…That’s all.

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OK, then, what can we teachers do for

our students?

This software aims at ways, which are never able to

accomplish with chalk and blackboard, ordinary tools

for teaching.

Reading sentence aloud together is one of the basic

method to learn a foreign language. But a “Repeat

after me” method does not always work in your

classroom.

It depends on your idea! Let’s see DEMO.

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DEMO

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Research

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Survey – Was this practice effective for

you? What did you think about this tool?

93%

7%

Positive Negative

• Research Settings

• 8-week intensive English grammar course for lower-

level college students, beginning with “I am a

student.”

• Continuous 3 hours per week

• Started this April with freshmen mainly (FYI:

Japanese schools usually start on April.)

• Using sentence-composition-based textbook (with

story of the Titanic), which contains 553 sentences

• Each week about 40 sentences chosen from 60-80

sentences, using 1-by-1 with translation layout

• Preparation needed (To write down one time all

assigned area on the textbook is necessary, but

students have answers.)

• Free writing comments with signature on the 4th

week

N=61

Positive=57

Negative=4

(Negative with reasonable

comment=2 )

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93%

7%

Positive Negative

• Negative Comments *translation by the author

• Too many sentences!

• Takes too much time!

• Positive Comments (some of them – better ones

come first :)

• I think it’s a good practice, because when

writing I can do much better, but I can’t do

it enough when speaking. Without speaking,

I don’t feel I can understand English. This

tool shows where I need to practice shifting

from Japanese to English.

• I need to think all the time which word

comes next.

N=61

Positive=57

Negative=4


comment=2 )

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93%

7%

Positive Negative

• Positive Comments (continued)

• It’s very effective in reconfirming grammar

when we have done preparation.• It‘s very difficult to compile English words and

phrases into sentences in a flash. I think this

tool is very effective on practicing this.

• It’s also effective for checking pronunciation.

• I believe reading aloud is effective practice.

• I enjoy this practice.

• I need this practice for my future.

• I feel this practice is a kind of warm up for

English classes.

• It’s effective because it stimulates my brain.

• This software gives me instantaneous force.

N=61

Positive=57

Negative=4


comment=2 )

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What We Want to Do in the Future – for


Compiling the User’s manual – especially

describing how to use effectively

Adding some other functions

…Please give us your ideas!

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Any Questions & Comments?

1. What is Bilingual Sentence Flashcard Maker?

2. Background of Development of Bilingual Sentence Flashcard Maker

3. Six digital teaching tools / Four slide show presentation tools

4. Why not PowerPoint? / Why database software?

5. About the minimum equipment

6. Recent improvement of Bilingual Sentence Flashcard Maker

7. DEMO + other functions

8. Research

9. Future of Bilingual Sentence Flashcard Maker

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Thank you!KAMIYA, Kenichi [email protected]

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