Effective use of learning management system for large-scale Japanese language education

Aldo

“…Finally, a collaborative system must provide an automatic versioning system that keeps track of all document changes: this allows users to keep the history of the changes made and provides the possibility to retrieve them, starting from a previous activity. To achieve our goal, we have exploited two open source software platforms: Nextcloud 1 , for the development of the online file 1 https://nextcloud.com/ system functionalities, and LibreOffice Online 2 for the implementation of the collaborative editing services. These platforms have been opportunely customized in order to derive our repository implementation: the result we have obtained is a modern collaborative platform, simple and intuitive to use, and that meets all the requirements described above.…”

“…Thanks to the development and success of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), we are currently witnessing a rapid spread of Web-based services that allow collaborations and interactions between users of any kind of organization and from very distant locations. When considering the educational and academic contexts, remote interaction and collaboration are commonly implemented by schools and universities [1], [2], [3], [4], [5] through the adoption of collaborative editing systems and e-Learning platforms. More specifically, considering the education sector, several studies have confirmed the benefits of using collaborative writing [2], [3], [6], [7] and e-Learning platforms [1], [4], [5] in teaching.…”

“…When considering the educational and academic contexts, remote interaction and collaboration are commonly implemented by schools and universities [1], [2], [3], [4], [5] through the adoption of collaborative editing systems and e-Learning platforms. More specifically, considering the education sector, several studies have confirmed the benefits of using collaborative writing [2], [3], [6], [7] and e-Learning platforms [1], [4], [5] in teaching. Furthermore, it has been proven that even greater benefits can be achieved by including multimedia digital materials within e-Learning courses [8] or by combining traditional teaching sessions with e-Learning sessions within school courses [9].…”

Investigating the effect of computer-mediated feedback via an LMS integration in a large-scale Japanese speaking class

“…Due to the high demand for international industry and commerce, the number of Japanese learners abroad is increasing significantly over the past 40 years (Japan Foundation, 2018 ). There have been cases where more than 100 students attended a Japanese basics class at an Indian university since 2016 due to the increasing demand for Japanese language education in higher education (Kataoka et al, 2018 ). The number of Japanese language teachers and native speakers who work abroad is very small compared to the number of students abroad.…”

“…Although students need sufficient oral practice and individual support to improve their erroneous utterances, especially in basics to intermediate language classes (Fukada, 2013 ; Ikeda & Fukada, 2012 ), there is a lack of opportunities for students’ individual oral repetition practice to detect and correct errors in a large-scale class. Teachers’ OCF was supposed to meet individual students’ needs, but such personalized feedback was hard to provide to all students during classroom hours due to severe time constraints (Kataoka et al, 2018 ). Therefore, this study aimed to propose computer-mediated feedback (CMF) outside classroom hours using an online oral repetition practice support system, which is called ORP Gym, to complement the ineffectiveness and limitation of the existing OCF in a large-scale class.…”