CROSS-CULTURAL EDUCATION IN ASIA USING ONLINE COMMUNICATION TOOLS AND THE DIALOGBOOK.

The significance of intercultural communication has steadily increased in today’s global era. However, partly due to Japan’s remote geographic location, it is difficult for Japanese people to travel abroad; this is especially true for the younger generations. Since 2020, we have been conducting the Students Meet Internationally through Learning English (SMILE) project to offer opportunities for Japanese students to communicate with other students living in foreign countries. In the SMILE project, students use the online meeting tools to communicate with each other and the Dialogbook, which was developed as a learning portfolio system, to record and support their learning activities. This paper provides an overview of the project and explains the current situation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]