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A Social Based Language Learning for CALL Environment to Develop Japanese Students’ English Communication Skills Farouck, Ibrahim Copyright by AACE. Reprinted from "the Proceedings of ELEARN 2011" with permission of AACE (http://www.aace.org). 830 370 言語学 教育・教育学 CALL TOEIC CMC Social Learning Drill-and-Practice S-BaLL Pre-college curricula, culture, and inadequate exposure to authentic communicative situations could be responsible for the difficulty in communicative English among Japanese college students. Additionally, Japan recognizes the TOEIC score as an authentic proof of English ability. These facts have encouraged Japanese universities to invest in CALL classrooms for CLT and drill-based TOEIC preparation without a clear pedagogy. This study proposes S-BaLL method that allows a blend of the drill-based TOEIC preparation and CLT to ensure authentic English communication. Students identify difficulties at the drill-based TOEIC preparation stage, and engage in group activities to solve the problems by turn-taking. An experiment conducted with a class of undergraduate students to ascertain students’ attitude in S-BaLL showed that most of the students were encouraged to participate. However, a few students found S-BaLL not encouraging for TOEIC preparation, and some others also preferred text to voice chat 2011 eng conference paper AM http://hdl.handle.net/10252/4800 https://barrel.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/4200 Proceedings of ELEARN 2011 617 625 https://barrel.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/4200/files/AACE ELearn 2011.pdf application/pdf 153.0 kB 2016-01-26