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上級日本語Network Online Workshop: Japanese language learning and teaching during COVID-19: What has changed?

Speakers:

Dr Levi Durbidge (University of Sunshine Coast, Australia)

Dr Gwyn McClelland (University of New England, Australia)

 Following the presentation by the two speakers, we will have a small group discussion on the theme.

Prior to the COVID-19 crisis, language learning was already undergoing a number of significant changes, including the integration of digital technologies in delivery, increased opportunities for autonomous learning through online affordances and moving beyond a view of students as simply ‘learners’. In our view the coronavirus pandemic accelerated these trends, and we outlined our reflections on this in our 2022 Japanese Studies article Japanese Language Learning and Teaching During COVID-19: Challenges and Opportunities. In the article we reflected on the importance of building learning communities online, the possibilities presented by the digital wilds and the value of self-access learning materials as the roles of students and teachers evolve. With the threat of COVID-19 fading in our collective self-consciousness and a return in many instances to face-to-face teaching, we ask “what (if anything) has changed for Japanese language teaching post COVID-19? In responding to this question we return to a discussion of the trends covered in the article. Has the increased role of digital technology in mediating language teaching affected how Japanese is taught and learnt? Have our perspectives of students and their role in our classes changed? Has the COVID era accelerated neoliberal expectations of language learning and its commodification? Has the availability of online resources for learning Japanese affected what is taught in the classroom? Recognising the diversity of experiences across the 上級日本語ネットワーク we wish to reflect together on these questions and what they mean for Japanese language teaching moving forward.

題名

コロナ禍での日本語教育: 変わったことは? 

概要

コロナ禍以前から、言語学習はすでに多くの重大な変化を経ていた。言語教育はデジタル配信との統合、オンラインのアフォーダンスで自律的学習の増加、学生を「学習者」以上の存在として認識することなどが含まれる。私たちは、コロナ禍が以上の傾向を加速させたと考えていて、これに関する考察を2022年の『Japanese Studies』の雑誌記事「Japanese Language Learning and Teaching During COVID-19: Challenges and Opportunities」にまとめた。その記事では、オンラインでの学習コミュニティーの構築の重要性、デジタルワイルドズでの学習可能性、生徒と教師の役割が変更する中でセルフアクセスの学習教材の価値について考察していた。コロナ禍の脅威が我々の意識の中で薄れ、対面授業に戻る場合の中で、「コロナ禍以降、日本語教育にとって何が変わったか」と問いたいと思っている。この質問の答えを導くために、記事で取り上げた傾向をもとに、次のことを考えたいと思う。言語教育を媒介するデジタル技術の増大は、日本語の教え方、学び方に影響を与えたのか。学生に対する見方や授業における学生の役割は変わったのか。言語学習に対するネオリベラリズム的な期待やその商品化を加速させたのか。日本語学習のためのオンライン資料の利用可能性は、教室で教えられることに影響を与えたのか?上級日本語ネットワークでの多様な経験の上で、これらの疑問と、それがこれからの日本語教育にどれぐらい関わってくるか、一緒に考えてみたいと思う。

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