3次元仮想空間チャットシステムによる英語授業の試行

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The author is a member of a group of researchers at the Faculty ef Languages andCultures at Kyushu University, undertaking a 3-year research program into foreignlanguage education using the 3-Dimensional Interactive Education System. I havebeen giving extensive consideration to how we could organize English classes with thehelp of this system, a new cornputer-based device that has never before beenintroduced in English language education.This system enables students to enter a 3-diinefisional cyberspace named VirtualCampus under the disguise of an alter ego named an avatar. In this space we find twobuildings, move around, and have a chat with other people through avatars, withoutknowing to whom they cerrespond in the real world. Our chat is at present carried outon a written basis although aural communication will also be avallable in the very nearfuture. The auther began to use this system in the middle of May and hereby makesa report on the first five class meetings.I give my students 4-5 tasks in a single class meeting in which they are requiredto communicate with each other in English. These tasks include free chat on adesignated topic, a debate on a topic assigned a week in advance, a role-playingactivity (such as gangsters trying to find some places in which to hide their money),story-telling, asking and answering questions, and so forth. These tasks are carefullydesigned so that the presence of the 3-dimeflsional virtual space is essential to theircompletion.Our students usually becorne nervous and tend to remaiR silent when asked tospeak in English because of shyness, despite the fact that they have studied English forat least six years. The complete anonymity generated by the avatar, and by loggingin under a pseudonym, however, makes them feel surprisingly free to express themselves.This effect is one of the advantages that this system generates, an effect thathas proved extremely difficult to achieve through more traditional ways of organizingEnglish classes.
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3次元仮想空間チャットシステムによる英語授業の試行

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