Outline of a project during 2005 -2007 when students in an EFL conversation class videotaped conversations and presentations, analysed them, and practiced points in order to improve.

1. Web-based video self-analysis of conversation and presentations Bob Gettings Hokusei University Junior College bgettings.com

5. Resume: CALL for Eikaiwa? Is action research only for teachers? In September 2005 we began a blended e-learning materials development pilot project to facilitate student action-research and reflective learning. The target learners were first year English majors at Hokusei Gakuen University Junior College. We approached the project ourselves as action researchers with the goal of facilitating our students’ action research and reflective learning skills. Students recorded a video of a short conversation; viewed the video on the internet; analyzed helpful and unhelpful practices in the conversation; decided on actions to practice over the following two weeks (promote good practices or diminish bad practices); and evaluated the results of the actions. Before the project students practiced evaluating two videos designed by the presenters. In carrying out our project we were equally as interested in learning how our students conceptualized helpful and unhelpful practices related to increasing conversation skills as in evaluating the effectiveness of the materials to facilitate their awareness and practice of those skills.

12. Affective Ecology of the Classroom:

13. Affective 2

14. Affective 3

15. How is your conversation ability compared to others in your Oral English class?

16. Emotions + % English

17. Watch the Movie with your partner

19. Good + bad student page

20. Good + bad teacher response

23. Student evaluation/response