Online Student-centered Seamless Learning Course under the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

In this paper, we describe the case study on conducting online student-centered seamless Japanese language and culture learning course under the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan. The Blogger and a chat tool called InCircle were introduced to run an online Japanese language and culture class, which consisted of 7 international students during 2020 spring semester at the university in the western part of Japan. The result of the questionnaire survey implies that the Blogger and InCircle combined language and culture learning class was successful though it has a minor limitation. The use of InCircle as a means of live communication contributed to the successful online class. It would be a useful tool even after the end of COVID-19 pandemic.