1. An Action Research of Applying Real-time Video Co-teaching with Cooperative Learning Strategies in the Business English Curriculum Flora, Kuei-Hsun Teng St. John’s University

2. Taiwan UnitedKingdom

3. Outlines Introduction Literature Review Research Method Results and Discussion Conclusions and Suggestions

4. Introduction A synchronous real-time video connection between a university in Taiwan and a sister university in England Collaboration with a British teacher Real-time videoconferencing Cooperative learning

5. Literature Review What and Why Action Research? Benefits of using videoconferencing Co-teaching Strategy Cooperative Learning Strategy Business English Curriculum

6. Traditional classroom vs. synchronous video-conferencing classroom

7. Research Method

8. Results and Discussion Reflective Journal What happened? What did I learn? What can I do about it? Open-ended Questionnaire

9. Conclusions and Suggestions Interactive, dynamic and require immediate responses from the participants They valued the opportunity to share experience with other group members Prefer to choose their own group members More prepared to enter the labour market Foreign students can participate in the program

11. Video Clips Topic ： Effective communication in Today's E-World (Part2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-T- TdxlC2E

12. Questions?