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Recently, there are a lot of researches on real time online teaching. Until now, online teaching focused mainly on communicating from teachers to learners, that is to say, in one direction only. However, learners would deepen their understanding...

Multimedia technologies have made rapid progress in recent years. By using these technologies advantageously, we can create more powerful and effective educational teaching materials. However, developing multimedia teaching materials requires...

We should be prepared for the rapid progress of multimedia technologies in terms of extending the life span of both developed programs themselves and the products created by these programs. Otherwise, our hard-won achievements may become rapidly...

There are growing number of foreign people who are interested in learning the Japanese language. However, there are not enough teachers and courseware of Japanese education. One of the problems is a wide range of interests: daily conversations,...

We have developed three component-based software applications, and fifteen reusable software components for English as a Foreign Language (EFL) education. Componentware is an object-oriented software development method that uses components as...

Web-VOCAL is a VOcabulary Concordance and Academic Lexis CALL design with integrated web browser functions. Web-VOCAL has concordance and collocation features particularly relevant for study in EFL courses oriented toward the comprehension of...

One of the important requirements for physics teachers concerns those tools which enable them to produce their own CAI materials for their classrooms. We have developed three applications for studying physical dynamics based on the componentware...

Our project concerns methodologies allowing teachers to produce their own computer-based educational materials more easily, so that computers can be utilized more effectively and efficiently in their classrooms. As one of means of realization of...

The aim of this project is to build software development environments for teachers, enabling them to produce educational applications for their classrooms as easily as they might produce educational materials using a word processor. As a means of...

Using Web Pages for supplemental materials in the classroom is very popular. However, some Web Pages are not suitable for educational use as their stuffy description. Our research aims at translating these formal web pages into plainer Japanese...

In this paper, we will describe the development of website building tools for EFL teachers. These tools will enable teachers to create their own interactive ESL teaching websites, in conjunction with a web server. As such, teachers will be able to ...

Our research aims at developing a web-based cooperative learning tool for EFL intermediate students. Teachers need to give students appropriate teaching materials. There are limited materials for intermediate level students than ones for beginners...

We have developing a web-based cooperative learning tool for EFL intermediate students. In EFL class, teachers need to give students appropriate teaching materials in order to improve students’ reading comprehension. Though, there are limited...

MiWIT (“Microsoft Word Integrated Text Analysis Tools”), provides a set of innovative text-analysis tools for second-language learning, developed for the Microsoft Word platform. These tools can free ESL (English as a Second) teachers from the need...

MiWIT (Microsoft Word Integrated Text Analysis Tools), provides a set of innovative text-analysis tools for second-language learning. These tools can free ESL/EFL teachers and content developers from the need to switch between discrete software...