As the world is now diverse and globalized, the opportunity to communicate and collaborate with speakers of different language and cultural backgrounds has increased. The foreign language education has also placed increased emphasis on learning languages through social activities (e.g., Satō and Kumagai, 2011). The Gaikokugo gakushū no meyasu "Foreign Language Education Guidelines" by Tohsaku, Nakano, et al. was published in 2012, and provides new guidelines for language teaching. In this paper, we explore a new way to implement the teaching styles recommended by the Meyasu guidelines into a curriculum, and examine the effectiveness by measuring students' ability to connect with people outside of the classroom through recurrent interactive communications.
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