What is it about?
This study is about a Skype partner program that emphasized meaningful communication between American students learning Japanese in the United States and Japanese students learning English in Japan. This paper examines if the participants improved their oral and aural competencies through this program.
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Why is it important?
Having opportunities to communicate with native speakers of their target languages is imperative for foreign language learners to increase their language abilities, specifically oral and aural competencies. This program is capable to provide participants with interactions with native speakers. Analysis showed significant improvement in their foreign language abilities.
Perspectives
Owing to the high quality of IT device, we could provide our learners of Japanese/English with experience of speaking with native Japanese/American university students. If we could set up the program successfully between two countries, specifically the United States and Japan, students themselves tremendously enjoy this kind of the project. I am very glad to disseminate our research study through FLA journal.
Dr Fumie FK Kato
The University of North Carolina at Chalrotte
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This page is a summary of: Mutually Beneficial Foreign Language Learning: Creating Meaningful Interactions Through Video-Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication, Foreign Language Annals, May 2016, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/flan.12195.
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