Agony or Fun?! Second Language Learning
I am a native Japanese speaker teaching Japanese in a university somewhere on this planet. This blog is usually written in English, but sometimes Japanese and Chinese appear. Please don't care what you cannot read. They are for my students.
Agano River and part of Gozu Mountain Range: Spring in 2017
White Plum flowers on Sumaura Sanjo Yuen in Kobe:
Akashi Park in Hyogo Prefecture: Spring in 2015
Mountain Kimpoku of Sado Island: Spring in 2018
Red Plum flowers on Sumaura Sanjo Yuen in Kobe:
Narcissus, or Jonquil? on Awaji Island in spring of 2015
Date: March 20th on Friday, 2020 from 13:40 to 15:10 (14:40 – 16:10 in JST)
Course: Japanese Conversation 4
Used app: Streaming on DingTalk, Presentation by Powerpoint with 64 slides
Numbers of Students: 28
Completely Absent : 2
Signing in late and/or Signing out early : 7
Participated almost 90 minutes: 19
Responses to the “During-the-Class_Quiz”:
1st Q=17, 2nd Q=20, 3rd Q=18, 4th Q=17
Teaching: V-te hoshii with basics of adjective “Hoshii”, Review of Section 9 from the point of views of casual-formal-honorable speech style.
Issues and Problems:
One way talking by the teacher was too much. Students’ participation is needed.
Agony or Fun?! Second Language Learning 