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Practice of Active-Learning and Teaching How to Make an English Presentation in EFL Classroom in a Japanese College: A Case Study of Proposing a Solution for Better English Announcements or Notation in Signs



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Mikako Nobuhara

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DOI:10.17265/1539-8080/2018.02.006

Tokyo Metropolitan College of Industrial Technology, Tokyo, Japan

As Nagoya University of Commerce and Business’s Website: Active Learning (2018), it is mentioned that active-learning is one of the effective procedures that includes mainly students’ activities in classes and it is also called “Participant Centered Learning” especially in the Western countries. The website also indicates that the most important feature of active learning is that teachers should handle the discussion that is not aimed to gain the correct answer. In this study, the classes were conducted in a college with active learning style. Students picked up one wrong English expression in announcements or signs in Tokyo and gave some solutions in an English presentation in EFL (English as a Foreign Language) classroom, using the presentation software, Power Point of Microsoft. The classes included the tasks within a group as an active styled learning in a classroom with CALL system, Computer Assisted Language Learning. The students firstly watched a video including both an explanation in difference of making a good/bad presentation and explanation in creating good visual slides in the presentation. They checked a model of a presentation and discussed what is needed in the good presentation before they made their own slides. After the pre-study for the presentation, the students prepared their own slides, made a script for the presentation in English, and teacher corrected the mistakes and they revised the data. Then, the students started practicing reading aloud and checking the slides and their scripts were relevant with each other. Through these step-by-step activities, the students worked very hard and their presentations were good enough. In addition, the result of the questionnaire after the classes gained good findings.

active-learning, CALL system, EFL students, English announcements, presentation, signs