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中部大学教育研究No.24（2024）―46―JournalofChubuUniversityEducationNo.24（2024）TheFeaturesandEffectivenessoftheOnlineEnglishLanguagePlatformATRCALLBRIX：aReviewof10YearsofPracticalUseOGURISeiko＊1andALLENDavidP.＊2＊1Professor,SchoolofGeneralEducation,ChubuUniversity＊2Lecturer,SchoolofGeneralEducation,ChubuUniversityAbstractTenyearshavepassedsinceATRCALLBRIX（hereafterBRIX）,anonlineEnglishlearningmaterial,wasintroducedtothisuniversity.Duringthattime,Covid-19struckandeducationalpracticeshadtobequicklyrevised.By-productsoftheCovid-19pandemicincludeanincreaseinonlineconferencesandonline-Learningopportunities,aswellasincreasedcompetitionforeasy-to-use-Learningapplicationsforsmartphoneusers.Underthesecircumstances,whataretheappropriateonline-Learningopportunitiesofferedbytheuniversity?In“TheEffectsofATRCALLBRIXImplementation:AnattempttoreduceEnglishpronunciationanxiety”fromtheJournalofChubuUniversityEducationNo.18（2018）,theauthorsreportedonblendedlearningpracticesincorporatingBRIXusageintheDepartmentofRoboticsScienceandEngineering（nowtheDepartmentofAIRobotics）.Inthispaper,wereviewthehistoryofBrixsinceitsintroductiontotheuniversityin2013,andsummarizethetransitionofitsusetothepresent.Inaddition,thefutureprospectsofBRIXasatoolforEnglishinstructionarediscussed.KeywordsEnglishasaforeignlanguage,pronunciation,teachingmaterials,blendedlearning,teacher'srole