JALT2025 - Tokyo

Help Learners Develop Globally Comprehensible English with Machine Transcription

Oct 31, 2025, 4:35 PM

1h

National Olympics Memorial Youth Center / 国立オリンピック記念青少年総合センター

Practice-oriented Workshop (60-minutes) Language Classroom Content Room 506

Speaker

Prof. Katherine SONG (University of the Ryukyus)

Description

Experience Englis teachers can understand our students’ English with an exceptionally rare degree of ease. Therefore, depending solely on our own ears to evaluate our students’ English may be disadvantageous to the students hoping to use English in the real world. An easy objective way to evaluate learner English output is with computer-generated transcripts of their recorded speeches and the presenter plans to share how this technology has been used in her university EFL classes.

Summary

Experience Englis teachers can understand our students’ English with an exceptionally rare degree of ease. Therefore, depending solely on our own ears to evaluate our students’ English may be disadvantageous to the students hoping to use English in the real world. An easy objective way to evaluate learner English output is with computer-generated transcripts of their recorded speeches and the presenter plans to share how this technology has been used in her university EFL classes.