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Asao (1997) lauds use of the Internet in teaching English as "a new paradigm of language learning." The Internet can be used in two ways. It can be used as a research tool to help students locate and synthesize knowledge and also as a means to communicate their findings and ideas to a world-wide audience (see Rule, 1997). This paper will briefly describe a research seminar that makes use of the Internet in these two ways and discuss some of the basic issues in (a) teaching Internet research and writing as a process, (b) designing attractive but simple homepages, and (c) managing a website that will effectively display student research papers.
For several years now I have been introducing Japanese college students to the histories and cultures of several foreign countries. In 2002 the course was expanded to allow students direct access to the Internet as an integral part of the class. I would like to describe the development of this course and share some insights about (a) teaching Internet research and process writing, (b) designing homepages, and (c) managing a website to display student research papers. Let me begin with the institutional and general background of the class.
Aichi Gakuin has a 126-year history. The junior college, located at the old campus, was created in 1950, but the Department of English Communication began only eleven years ago. The two-year program accepts about 130 students each year for a total of about 260 students. There are thirteen full-time faculty members in the Junior College Division of Aichi Gakuin University, of which two are native English speakers.
Class work in all of my classes is based around discussion groups of three to four students. To prepare for group discussion each student is required to write one page of homework each week. Each group also writes a group report, a page summary of what they talk about in class, including any questions they may have for the teacher.
The Course Without Computers
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Revived and Expanded Course
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Homepage Structure
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First Drafts
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Subsequent Drafts
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Conclusions
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Sincere thanks to two of my colleagues here at Aichi Gakuin University, Daniel Dunkley and Glenn Gagne for valuable critical comments on earlier drafts. Not all of the advice received was necessarily heeded, however, and I retain full responsibility for the final product.
Any comments on this article will be welcomed and should be mailed to the author at Aichi Gakuin University, Junior College Division, 1-100 Kusumoto-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Japan 456-0037 or e-mailed to jeffreyb@dpc.aichi-gakuin.ac.jp. Other papers and works in progress may be accessed at http://www.aichi-gakuin.ac.jp/~jeffreyb/index.html/research.
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