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パワーポイントのVBA機能を利用したデジタル教材による英語授業活性化の試み

Enhancing English Language Class Activities by Using VBA Script of PowerPoint

Japanese (日本語)

神戸大学国際コミュニケーションセンター論集

8

13-24

神戸大学国際コミュニケーションセンター

2011

2012-04-05

This article presents an enhanced usage of Microsoft PowerPoint® (PPT hereafter) in English classrooms at college. PowerPoint® has played a crucial role in classroom as well as anywhere to succinctly make an effective presentation with its strong visual properties. Flexibility to handle multimedia materials such as images, videos and sounds is what makes it sometimes crucial in foreign language teaching as well. Still there is much to be explored in PPT. Several tasks like sentences with blanks and jumbled word order suggested in Isoda (2011) have been converted to a digital PPT version enhanced with VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) program scripts and put into practice in my English classes. As is abundantly illustrated in Marcovits (2004), VBA programs can make what otherwise cannot be achieved in PPT in a dramatic way: Keeping the record of the input; Make images appear and disappear at the teacher’s will; Time keeping function; Generation of randomly selected sentences, and so on. As a result it makes it possible that students can solve problems with the results recorded, which could be emailed to the teacher manually. And the wpm (words per minute) related slide can also be developed which measure the reading speed with the function of recording the wpm automatically. Students’ feedback from this Fall semester’s classes of 2011, which suggests a further review of the programs, concludes the article.

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