Date: July 1st on Wednesday, 2020 from 15:30 to 17:00 (16:30 – 18:00 in JST)
<This was a supplementary class that was done in irregular hours>
Course: Japanese Conversation 4
Used app: Video conference on DingTalk. 16 png images were uploaded on BBS in order for the students to look at. In the meantime the teacher was using power point only on teacher’s computer screen. The PPT slide was used to show the teacher some scripts and to make it easy to play mp3 audio for listening activity.
Numbers of Students:
– Attendance check at the beginning
: 20 students input “Shusseki” on BBS as their self-claiming attendances.
: 24 students were confirmed to be connected to the video conference.
– Attendance check at the end
: 17 students sent me four sentences that were a task given to them.
Class Activities:
(1) Listening and comprehension
This class used a listening material from “Dekiru Nihongo”. This activity was continued from the Monday class. It was taken from the section 12-1 on the beginner-intermediate book (Yellow) of Dekiru Nihongo. The conversation between Park-san and Yamaguchi-san included the following expressions:
-1: Use of particle “-mo” to emphasize the extent that is big, many, frequent, and so on
-2: Use of particle “-shika” that is always followed by negative expression behind: This was also emphasizing, however, “-shika——nai.” emphasizes the extent that is small, little, less frequent, and so on.
-3: Suggestion “-tara doudesuka”
-4: Doing something A without doing something B, “V1-naide, V2 suru”
The listening materials were segmented for these four expressions. In each segment, I did my teaching as follows:
<1> Asking a student to describe the situation looking at a picture shown on BBS.
<2> Listening to audio by playing mp3
<3> Asking a student several questions to confirm his/her understanding
<4> Rote exercise of the new expression (one of four listed above)
<5> Listening again with showing the script of the conversation.
(2) Writing four sentences using the expressions of the day
The students were told to write four sentences using four expression learned today. They sent them to me at the end of the class.
Homework Assignment:
– No HA.
Issues and Problems:
Of course the improvement is necessary for the above procedure <1> through <5>. This was not the best for students’ learning.
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