Computers and English: A match made in Heaven !

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Computers and English A match made in Heaven !

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• Kumamoto Prefecture High School English Teachers
  Conference
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• ????? (Judy Yoneoka)
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• (English Dept. Kumamoto GAKUEN University)

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Why?

• Two requirements for being in the top 5
• in the 21st century
• Computer ability
• and
• English ability

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A quick survey 1

• Do you know use
• E-mail?
• Chat or messenger services?
• BBS (bulletin boards)?
• Mailing lists?
• Online dictionaries or encyclopedias?
• Online translation sites?

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A quick survey 2

• At your school do you have use
• A computer lab?
• A language lab?
• Access to internet?
• Free student access after class?
• OFFICE (word, excel, powerpoint)
• MSN (AOL, etc.) messenger?

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Facts about computers

• About 300 million computers in use in 1999
• About 500 million users of Internet (and growing
  by leaps and bounds)
• Keitai users are internet users too! (I-mode,
  J-Sky, EZ-web)

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Facts about English

• About 375 million ENL users
• (English as a native language)
• About 375 million ESL users
• (English as a second language)
• About 750 million EFL users
• (English as a foreign language) Graddoll 1995
• The most widely used language in the world!
• 3/4 of the world痴 English users are non-native!

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Links between Computers and English

• 70 of Internet home pages are in English
• 40 of Internet users are (native?) English
  speakers Iseri 2002
• In Japan, over 95 of Japanese computer
  vocabulary is in Katakana
• In Africa Internet usage in 2001 was almost 4
  times higher in English countries than in
  non-English countries (although the latter
  outnumber the former by 33 to 22) Iseri 2002

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Examples of computer use in my English classes

• Listening
• Writing
• Speaking
• World Englishes
• American Studies
• Current Events
• Computers and English

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Approach to Computers and English (Old Model)

• Computers and English

Research
Education
Communication
Educational home pages (Multimedia, Language,
news, music, movies)
Online journals, Corpora
Keypals, home page creation, chat, presentations
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New Model
Interaction
Communi-cation
Mailing lists, BBS, keypals, chat rooms
Language, news, music, movie HPs ETC
HP creation, Presentations
Education

E-learning, Blended learning
Dictionaries Encyclopedias Resource HPS
Surveys Polls
Field work
Reference
Online journals, Corpora
Research
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