ラシェル メイヤー   Rachelle MEILLEUR   ラシェル・メイヤー    所属   京都外国語大学  外国語学部 英米語学科    職種   准教授
発表年月日	2021/12/03
発表テーマ	The Intercultural Benefits of a Short-Term COIL Project
会議名	19th AsiaTEFL International Conference 2021
主催者	Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi, GLA University, Mathura
学会区分	国際学会
発表形式	口頭（一般）
単独共同区分	単独
国名	インド
開催地名	Mathura, India (Online)
開催期間	2021/12/03～2021/12/05
発表者・共同発表者	Rachelle R. Meilleur
概要	Long before the Covid-19 pandemic prevented students and researchers from pursuing study abroad, the reality is that many students do not have the resources for extended study in foreign countries. Yet in an increasingly globalized world, the need for students to gain some international and intercultural experience is still there. One positive takeaway from the pandemic is that it has provided a steep learning curve for many students and teachers to become more fluent with online resources. In such an environment, this researcher was part of a COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning) project that paired high- intermediate global studies writing students based in Japan with first-year Canadian writing students primarily studying early childhood education. Despite the differences in majors and levels of English, the students were able to successfully collaborate on a group research project and to present their findings in an online forum. This researcher will discuss the process she and her Canadian colleague went through to set up the project, how they dealt with both expected and unexpected problems along the way, the positive and negative aspects of running a COIL project with completely different students over different time zones in an asynchronous setting, as well as the intercultural takeaways gleaned from the project. This information will be useful to any teachers who would like to attempt a similar undertaking with their own students.