Share Paper: Mobile COLT -Development of a Mobile Language Classroom Analysis System-

  1. Hiroki Ishizuka, Hokkaido University of Education, Japan
  2. Ronald Kibler, Department of International Studies Komazawa University, Tomakomai Campus, Japan
Thursday, October 19 10:45 AM-11:15 AM Parksville

Abstract: Language class observation studies were started to investigate the relationship between teaching and learning in a language classroom when Communicative Language Teaching became predominant as a language teaching theory Among several of the observation schemes, one of the highly validated methods was Communicative Orientation of Language Teaching initiated by N Spada and M Fröhlich This method, however, is not commonly used by language teachers because of its time-consuming procedures To overcome this shortcoming, the author, in collaboration with other researchers, has designed a new video-on-demand online platform named CollaVOD and an accompanying mobile version named Mobile COLT Mobile COLT facilitates ...