Online Teaching for Class 1939 (Listening) on Mar.18, 2020

Date: March 18th on Wednesday, 2020 from 8:00 to 9:30 (9:00 – 10:30 in JST)

Course: Japanese Listening 2

Used app: Streaming on DingTalk, Presentation by Powerpoint (73 slides)

Numbers of Students: 27

All the 27 students stayed with me online class from start to the end.

Responses to the “During-the-Class_Quiz”:

I didn’t much “During-the-Class” quiz this time. I asked only four students to get reactions. This wasn’t enough to get responses and to give them feedback. I need to improve the way to get students’ reaction.

Teaching:

1: Review of Homework: 24 out of 27 students sent me their answers of homework. Four students failed to send to me in time. All 24 got full scores.

2: Review of the last class; A lot of rote training. I am not sure but this kind of mechanical repetition would get criticized in current second language learning norm.

3: Noun predicate sentences that can mean existence of a person or things. Last time I taught them two types of verb predicate sentences that can mean existence of a person/animal and things that don’t have life.

Homework Assignment:

Drawing a picture by the direction of listening material. This is the activity that the textbook intended. It’s good to give it to students as a homework.

Issues and Problems:

Good balance between rote training and “meaningful learning”