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本研究は、オーストラリアと日本のeTandemプロジェクト(オンラインを活用した日本語と英語のランゲージエクスチェンジ)に取り組んだ英語に苦手意識を持っている1名の日本人大学生の心理的変化について調査したものである。eTandemはZoomとPadletを活用して1か月に4回行われた。各回20分間で実施され、前半は日本語で、後半は英語でやり取りを行った。その結果、1対1のeTandemに参加することで外国人との会話に挑戦するきっかけになり、ICTの画面共有機能やチャット機能の活用が参加者の理解の促進に役立ち、スピーキング抵抗感の軽減に効果的であることがわかった。

This study investigated some of the psychological changes observed in a Japanese university student before and after participating in an eTandem project. In the eTandem, students from two universities in Japan and in Australia met online for language exchange. This paper focuses on one of the Japanese students in the eTandem who considers herself poor at English. It discusses some of the changes she went through and the roles that Zoom and Padlet, the applications adopted for the project, played out in such changes. The eTandem was run for a period of one month, within which a total of four language exchanges was held for 20 minutes each time. In a language exchange, students carried out a conversation using Japanese in the first 10 minutes and using English in the other 10 minutes. This paper reports how a one-on-one language exchange the student took part in functioned as an opportunity for her to face the challenges of maintaining a conversation with a language partner. We found that screen-sharing and chat functions that ICT offers were employed by the pair effectively so that they could understand each other better, and consequently, helped reduce the Japanese student's unwillingness to speak English.