Effects of E-conferencing on Teacher Writing - In preparation for a teacher training course

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The goal of a teacher training course I Take charge of is to make a speech. Speechmaking is based on thinking. Since it is a result of thinking, writing is included as a main activity of teacher training. In trying to help each participant realize "something meaningful", however, we cannot expect the goal to be attained only by listening to a lecture.In such an effort, e-conferencing is adopted. The participants listen to current news topics in English, write down six topics and practice writing on them. Then they choose one topic for essay-writing, think about that topic, and write a short essay on it. To improve the drafts, dialogue between participants and their instructor begins via e-mail, which is called "e-conferencing". This continues for a month through iterations, with questions, comments, and responses passing back and forth until the participants send in their final drafts.A similar training course has been conducted for seven years, and 2009 marks the eighth-year course, which was attended by 16 senior high school teachers. This paper focuses on an examination of effects of e-conferencing on teacher writing, and a result of such an effort is reported.