Online Teaching for Class 1836 (Composition) on Apr.21, 2020

Date: April 21st on Tuesday, 2020 from 15:30 to 17:00 (16:30 – 18:00 in JST)

Course: Japanese Basic Composition 2

Used app: Streaming on DingTalk, Presentation by Powerpoint with 67 slides

Numbers of Students: 28

23 students participated for whole 90 minutes.

5 students were recorded for their short attendances: 86, 85*2, 84, 53 minutes

Responses to my requests like Quiz answers onto BBS:

– Attendance check by reporting his/her-selves: 27. One student came late recorded 84 minutes participation.

– 1st Quiz: 20 students responded. This was to ask the stroke order of Hiragana “NA”. 19 students answered that they were using the right stroke order (I am suspicious), only one student reported using wrong one honestly.

– 2nd Quiz: 24 students responded immediately. One student posted his answer 7 minutes late, which indicated that he was not with the class at time of quiz No.2. This was to ask the right conjugations of eight verbs that were the form preceding another conjugate words.

– 3rd Quiz; 20 students responded. The question was to check students’ understanding for exceptional use and meaning of I-adjectives “near (chikai)” and “far (to’oi)”.

– Attendance check at the end : 20 students responded. During class another series of quiz was done with 5 questions. Submitting five answers right after the class was asked to the students as an attendance check at the end of the class.

Teaching:

1st half:

– The students were warned about plagiarizing from others’ writing to their composition.

– Reading and comprehension of a famous poem “30 minutes in the early evening (Yuugata-no Sanjippun)”. Four questions were asked to the students in order to measure their understanding the poem.

2nd half

– From the textbook; connecting two clauses in order to write a longer sentence by the conjugation form when the word was preceding another conjugation words.

Homework:

1: Rewriting their memo about the uses of particles “-ga” and “-o”.

Issues and Problems:

It is necessary to teach the importance of copyright and proper ways of citation and reproduction. The students are still unaware that it is unacceptable for them to steel someone’s writing and to use it for their compositions.