Japanese language courses abroad tend to be large in scale, and they provide insufficient speaking practice during classroom hours. Computer-mediated speaking practice and feedback are promising for improving both the efficiency and the effect of language courses. Using an action research methodology, we observed detailed problems in a Japanese-speaking course at an Indian university in the first cycle and introduced a learning management system (LMS) to enable individual monitoring and feedback and oral assessments/exams in the second cycle. From the third cycle onward, the proposed LMS was extended as an online oral repetition practice support system (ORP Gym) to increase the number of computer-mediated oral assessments and to provide speaking practice and feedback throughout the course. Oral exam scores through the cyclic trials during the five-year action research were found to have significantly improved after the beginning of the ORP Gym. This research presents the practical difficulties with and lessons from extending the LMS to improve the quality and quantity of large-scale speaking courses abroad.

国外的日语课程往往规模较大，课堂上的口语练习不足。计算机介导的口语练习和反馈有望提高语言课程的效率和效果。我们使用行动研究方法，在第一个周期中观察了印度大学日语课程中的详细问题，并在第二个周期中引入了学习管理系统（LMS）以实现个人监控和反馈以及口语评估/考试。从第三个周期开始，拟议的 LMS 被扩展为在线口语重复练习支持系统 (ORP Gym)，以增加计算机介导的口语评估的数量，并在整个课程中提供口语练习和反馈。通过五年行动研究期间的循环试验发现，ORP Gym 开始后，口语考试成绩有了显着提高。本研究提出了扩展学习管理系统以提高国外大型口语课程质量和数量的实际困难和教训。