Online Teaching for Class 1837 (Composition) on April.17, 2020

Date: April 10th on Friday, 2020 from 8:00 to 9:30 (9:00 – 10:30 in JST)

Course: Japanese Basic Composition 2

Used app: Streaming on DingTalk, Presentation by Powerpoint with 82 slides

Numbers of Students: 27 out of 28

90 minutes attendance: 18 students

Shorter participation: 68, 41, 31, 29, 5, 5, 3, and 3 minutes, and the shortest was 3 seconds.

completely absence: 1 student

Responses to my requests like Quiz answers onto BBS:

Attendance check: 28. But one student were recorded as “Completely Absent” on the system.

Quiz 1 : 17 students responded. The question was to find an incorrect sentence from six sentences that had different words order. Actually there was no incorrect sentences, all the six sentences were correct. This question aimed at showing that there is a flexibility in words order in Japanese thanks to particles that indicate the function of a word.

Quiz 2: No student could make his/her response. Probably it was too difficult. I did not ask this question to class 1836 for the same reason. Everything was in Japanese, but let me write in English:

Question: which of A or B is described in the the following statement?

It is not clear if Ms.Hasegawa and Ms.Saito were confused each other, or these two were confused with other people.

A: I mistakenly thought Ms. Saito as Ms.Hasegawa.

B: I confused Ms.Hasegawa and Ms Saito.

This question was to show the verb “Machigaeru” needs not only a word with “-o” but also a word with “-to” to make a sentence have sufficient information.

Quiz3: 20 students responded. The question was to choose sentences that were more suitable to writing.

Teaching:

The same as composition class for 1836 on Tuesday. The first half was to give the students a feedback about the results of the last week’s homework assignment. It was a kind of test about particles. As I predicted, there were so many error caused by the influence of ‘”Wa-ga construction”.

The Second half was teaching using the textbook. It consisted review of last week and this week’s topic. The former was connecting two phrases to make a longer sentence, the latter was expressions that were more suitable for writing.

Homework:

1: Writing a composition about how to use the particle “-ga” and “-o”.

2: Writing sentences that a student made errors with for the last week’s homework.

Issues and Problems:

A huge problem with over generalization of Wa-ga Construction.