Development and Practice of Multi-Purpose-Use Database Software for Language Classes
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Prepared for ASIACALL 2014, the 13th International Conference, 21-24 Nov. 2014, held in Changhua, Taiwan.
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- 1. Kenichi KAMIYA, Yukari MIURA, Minako TAKAGI, Norikazu TAHARA, Naomi IKEYA, Kosuke SAITO, Yoko KAWAGUCHI, Eriko KURODA, Ritsuko DOURA, Akihiko INOUE, Takeshi KAKIHARA & Sunmi KIM
- 2. “Activation of Beginners-level Foreign Language Classroom and Facilitation of Presenting Digital Teaching Material - Utilizing Database Software” – Supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 24520675 – A three-year (2012-2014) ongoing collaborative project Consist of 12 teachers of 7 languages – GK-FIRES: Acronym for German, Korean, French, Italian, Russian, English and Spanish – Minimum equipment, Maximum learning effect – How can we provide multi-purpose material use? 2
- 3. We’ve Developed and Practiced… 1) Conjugation Presentation Tools 2) Bilingual Sentence Flashcard Maker 3) Multiple-Choice Quiz Generator 4) Sentence Transformation Presenter 5) Phrase Reading Worksheet Generator 6) Flashcard App for iOS Devices 3
- 4. We’ve Developed and Practiced… 1) Conjugation Presentation Tools 2) Bilingual Sentence Flashcard Maker 3) Multiple-Choice Quiz Generator 4) Sentence Transformation Presenter 5) Phrase Reading Worksheet Generator 6) Flashcard App for iOS Devices 4
- 5. Today we’d like to talk these four tools. 1) Conjugation Presentation Tools 2) Bilingual Sentence Flashcard Maker 3) Multiple-Choice Quiz Generator 4) Sentence Transformation Presenter 5) Phrase Reading Worksheet Generator 6) Flashcard App for iOS Devices 5
- 6. Why not PowerPoint? – Not easy to choose the slides to use – Not easy to change the order Why database software? – Easy to manage data and layout separately ( = multi-purpose use ) – Easy to control what we want to show ( = flexible use ) 6
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- 26. 1) User’s manual with practice cases 2) Needs to verification – Really improved with multi-function presentation tools? – How can we use them more effectively? 3) Needs to development of other new tools – To realize instruction techniques which are difficult with chalk and blackboard 4) More other languages – Chinese / Japanese for foreigners … 26
- 27. + Key Phrases / Key Sentences: 1) Activation of Foreign Language Classroom 2) Facilitation of Presenting Digital Teaching Material 3) Minimum equipment, Maximum learning effect 4) How can we provide multi-purpose material use? 5) Conjugation Presentation Tools 6) Bilingual Sentence Flashcard Maker 7) Multiple-choice Quiz Generator 8) Sentence Transformation Presenter 9) Spreadsheet-like format 10) Why not PowerPoint? 11) Why database software? 12) User’s manual with practice cases 13) Needs to verification 14) Needs to development of other new tools 15) More other languages 27
- 28. Kenichi KAMIYA, Yukari MIURA, Minako TAKAGI, Norikazu TAHARA, Naomi IKEYA, Kosuke SAITO, Yoko KAWAGUCHI, Eriko KURODA, Ritsuko DOURA, Akihiko INOUE, Takeshi KAKIHARA & Sunmi KIM
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- Welcome to our presentation, titled “Development and Practice of Multi-purpose-use Database Software for Language Classes.” My name is Kenichi KAMIYA, and here with me is Sunmi KIM, who are here and here.
- Here is an overview of this study. This is the title of the study, which is “Activation of Beginners-level Foreign Language Classroom and facilitation of Presenting Digital Teaching Material, Utilizing Database Software.” supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, JSPS, KAKENHI Grant, which is the most famous Grant in Japan. The number is 24520675, you don’t have to remember this, because I myself can’t remember this number. And This is a three-year ongoing collaborative project ending in next march, Japanese fiscal year, consist of 12 teachers of 7 languages. We are members of GK-FIRES, which is an acronym of German, Korean, French, Italian, Russian, English, and Spanish. This is also the name of this project. Under this project, we have developed and practiced 6 kinds of educationally useful software, mainly targeted beginners-level learners, and kept maintaining for 3 years. Now let me introduce the members using the previous slide.
- OK, now let’s move on. These things listed in this slide page, are what we have done in this study. We have developed and Practiced these software. Precise description and Demos of them are going to be introduced later, but now I’ll read them one by one. #1 Conjugation Presentation Tool, #2 Bilingual Sentence Flashcard Maker, #3 Multiple-choice Quiz Generator, #4 Sentence Transformation Presenter, #5 Phrase Reading Worksheet Generator, and #6 Flashcard App for iOS Devices. Now we should mention, that,
- … all tools are in public for Free of charge. These tools are on my website. I’ll show you the URL of my website later. Or you can see it in the conference handbook, on page 55. I have one bad news. These tools are all in Japanese right now. In the future we think at least English version of them are indispensable.
- Today, among what we’ve done, we’d like to talk these four tools of them. The reason we choose these four tools is because they use a spreadsheet-like format to store items beforehand.
- By the way, all the tools we have developed are used database software. In this study, we have developed large numbers of tools, which are used for slide presentation. We are often asked why we use database software instead of PowerPoint. The reasons we use database software are clear, because the functions of PowerPoint are limited compared to these of database software. Here’s are the reasons we use database software. Why we do not use PowerPoint? One reason is that it’s not easy to choose the slides to use. Another reason is that it’s not easy to change the order of the slides. Can you imagine that among several PowerPoint slide files, we have to choose one slide from this file, another from this file, another from this, these sort of things? Or can you imagine that from the file, not more than one, but one file, we have to change the order, say this slide in the end comes first, then the slide page in the beginning comes next, these sort of things. We think PowerPoint is not enough convenient in terms of multi-purpose use and flexibility. Compare to PowerPoint, database software can treats and manages the data and the layout separately, which means it is easy to reuse the material stored in the database. And this means multi-purpose uses of them. Another strong point is that it’s easy to control what we want to show, which can lead to flexible uses of the data. We’ll talk this later precisely, （ここまでゆっくり目で読んで約7分）
- Before we move on to demo, we’ll show you how they look like in a short time.
- #1, Conjugation Presentation tools. Among 7 languages we’d like to choose French as an example. This is a spreadsheet format for French verbs. We store these kind of things in advance. You can store as many as you would like to. After you’ve finished, save the file and import it using the button located on top of the tools, which looks like this.
- This is the Main screen of the Conjugation presentation tools for French language. If we click “show conjugation button” in each sentence, which is located on the left and top one, we well see
- These kind of things. You can move along or backward using the arrow button. There are so many buttons, which we will demonstrate later, are used for showing and hiding of each item.
- We also have “one line practice” mode for remembering conjugation chart, along with Japanese translation as a trigger.
- Next, let’s take a look at the Korean version of the conjugation presentation tools. It looks the same.
- But as you see, this looks not the same. The location of show and hide button, and the contents are different from the French version.
- But One line Practice mode looks the same. By the way, these differences are the results of the consultation between the language team members and me. I should have mentioned earlier, I am the developer and other members are practitioners. In the case of Korean, a daily conversation between my wife and me, made this software. To and from other members, most of the requests for bug fix are made using e-mail communication.
- Ok, next, here are what the bilingual sentence flashcard maker looks like. First, you will see the main screen of this tool.
- Here is a sample of data stored in spreadsheet. This one is rather simple than that for conjugation presentation tools, because the data necessary for bilingual sentence flashcard maker are not so many. There should be at least the sentence and its translation only.
- Here is an example. You will see buttons for show and hide the elements of the sentences on the top of the right side.
- Here is another tool, tool #3, Multiple-choice quiz generator. As the name suggests, it’ll be used for generating quiz using items shown in this slide.
- But this tool also can be used for slides generator using stored items beforehand on the spreadsheet like this.
- Here is an example of generating multiple choice quiz. We will demonstrate it later.
- Finally the newest one, which is not mentioned in the conference book, #4, sentence transformation presenter. This tool is developed by the ideas of our Italian team members.
- As the name suggests, using this tool, we can see up to 5 transformation of the sentences.
- In this case, students are trying to change the subject of the sentence from male form to female one.
- OK, Now, it’s time to demonstrate each tools.
- Okay now we’re going to talk what we’d like to do in the future. Here are the list of them. #1, We need to make user’s manual with practice cases. #2. Another important issue is that we need to verify more clearly. We know we can teach conjugation charts and sentences using software very conveniently and flexibly than ever before, but we have to check that students have really improved or not, using multi-function presentation tools. And we have to think more effective way of using them. #3. We also think another or a few more tools in order to realize instruction technique which are difficult with chalk and blackboard, not using high-tech tools such as Learning management system or e-learning. For us, LMS and e-learning software are very high-tech educational environment. Rather than that, we want to use minimum equipment such as projector and screen. #4. We are concerned that we’d like to cope with some more other languages such as Chinese, and Japanese for foreigners.
- OK, that’s all for now. We welcome any questions and comments from all of you. Here is the list of key phrases and key sentences in this talk. Any questions or comments?