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東北女子大学・東北女子短期大学紀要, 50, 2012, p.119-124

Recently, the e-Learning system is being used by the enterprise and the university. Some e-Learning systems have some functions of an online class. With online teaching, the teaching material is chiefly composed of Images made with presentation tools, text, moving video pictures, and audio. As online teaching is a combination of these, In e-Learning, It is important to develop the multimedia teaching material to make the learner interested. On the teacher side, The following two problems are in the using of multimedia teaching material. First, It is difficult to make the teaching material. Because expertise in handling the authoring tools is necessary. Secondly, it is difficult to follow the learning progress of the student. In a lot of multimedia teaching materials, the learner’s log data of attended classes can be taken. But, the log data within each class item can not be taken. For the teacher, It is important to know what the learner has done. We developed an online class system. It have functions for the teacher the authoring tools for the multimedia teaching material that can be easily made. Also, both a Learner’s log data of attended classes can be taken, and , in addition, the log data of each class item can be taken. Finally, we combine results from evaluating e-Leraning teaching materials of the system that develops by this research.

Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) is a rapidly growing field. It’s still in an early stage, but computers are about to become an integral part of language teaching. What can computers do to assist language instruction? The computer makes possible a variety of exercises in its quantity and its formats. With a word-processor, writing tasks can turn out to be very enjoyable, because the word-processor’s facilities take out so much of the laborious efforts, and the result printed out is a clean and tidy piece of writing. Communicating via computer with English speakers all over the world helps learners to use the target language in the real world. It also helps to develop their cultural awareness. This article aims to give an outline of what teachers and learners can do with computers in the language class. It also suggests what improvements can be carried out by the introduction of CALL into the English language teaching in Japan.