Faculty Publications and Conference Presentations

　日本語の初級コース Lang1210におけるBlended Learningの実践事例を示しながら、「つながる」「機能する」「広がる」学びのデザインを示す。

　科学技術の発展に伴い、学び方が時代とともに変容してきている。コロナ禍でOnline授業、e-learningなどの教育のデジタル化が大きく進展した。対面型の授業であれ、e-learning型の学習であれ、それぞれ良さを秘めている。今後の教育活動を考える時、それぞれの良さを融合したデザインが求められると考える。この発表では、e-learningと対面型の授業を通して、学生が「つながる」「機能する」「広がる」学びのデザインを示す。学生自らがe-learningで、教材と向き合い学習を進める。教室では、新しい学習内容について、学生同士が教えあい学びあい理解を深める。興味や関心に応じて学びを自ら広げる可能性を探っていきたい。個別の学生の支援についても検討したい。

キーワード：「つながる」、「機能する」、「広がる」

※　The 13th International Symposium for Japanese Language Education and Japanese Studies “Embracing Diversities, Igniting Potentials”

This is the web of the Symposium.

Programme
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/63f154d2e8a0b30161d23d77/t/6542f051e9e2bf77a825ce0d/1698885730127/Abstract_final_02112023.pdf

Proceeding
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/63f154d2e8a0b30161d23d77/t/65483a937162ed27c4be4fe6/1699232449506/Proceedings_final_06112023.pdf

ChatGPT has become a worldwide phenomenon since its release in November 2022 with many speculating its potential to transform how texts are composed in different discourse domains. Business and professional communication is one domain that ChatGPT and other AI driven language processing tools can be used to assist with the construction of different texts. Persuasion is a key objective of many genres of business communication, and metadiscourse—language which refers to the subject matter—has been shown to be an essential element of persuasive discourse. The present study aims to explore the use of metadiscourse in persuasive texts constructed by ChatGPT. The income statements of a selection of S&P 500 companies were fed into ChatGPT and instruction given to compose persuasive CEO’s letters to shareholders. Specifically, interactional metadiscourse (Hyland, 2005) is examined in the generated texts, which is a category of resources that encodes explicitly writer-reader interaction and a writer’s evaluation of the propositional content. The findings show that interactional metadiscourse is an integral component of the discourse generated by ChatGPT which is consistent with prior studies of these resources in the CEO’s letter to shareholders. ChatGPT’s potential as a valuable tool is highlighted. It can help business professionals to enhance their interaction with stakeholders by using appropriate metadiscourse markers, and it can provide a template which can be modified and adapted according to the writer’s purpose, audience and genre expectations. ChatGPT could be particularly useful for L2 writers of English who may struggle with the linguistic and rhetorical aspects of persuasive communication in a second language. However, ChatGPT may have limitations in capturing context-specific nuances and it may not be able to account for the ethical and social implications of persuasive communication leading to the generation of texts which are misleading or biased.