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Date: April 27th on Monday, 2020 from 9:50 to 11:20 (10:50 – 12:20 in JST)

Course: Japanese Listening 2

Used app: Streaming on DingTalk, Presentation by Powerpoint with 69 slides

Numbers of Students: 27

25 students stayed with me from the start to the end. Two students were recorded their shorter participation  with 87 and 84 minutes.

Students’ Responses:

– Attendance Check : All the 27 students typed his/her attendance by themselves on BBS

– Quiz 1 : 25 students answered. This question was to choose the correct endings for each noun, Na-adjective, I-adjective, and verb predicate sentences for present-assertive.

– Quiz 2: All the 27 answered. Question was about a negative sentence of I-adjective predicate with “tasty (Oishii)”. It was an easy question but an important one in order to avoid confusion with negative sentences of Na-adjective predicate.

– Quiz 3: 22 students answered. The question was to ask about conjugations of auxiliary verb “-youda” with pointing out a similarity with Na-adjectives. It is still too early for the first grade students to learn the auxiliary verbs. So my purpose was not there. I wanted the students to know that Da turns to be Na for modifying a noun, and Da turns to be Ni for modifying a verb.

– Quiz at the End: 24 students typed their own sentences in which an adjective conjugated to modify a verb as an adverbial.

Teaching:

1: Review of sentences of comparison

– “Noun1” is more “Adjective” than “Noun2”

– Question: Which of the “Noun1” and “Noun2” is more “Adjective”?

– Answer: Noun is more Adjective.

2: Introduction of Adjectives’ conjugations to modify a verb

– I- and Na- adjectives modifies a verb “-suru” that is a transitive verb like “do” in English.

Homework Assignment:

– No Homework.

Issues and Problems:

Two things happen simultaneously in the section 17 of the textbook. One is adjectives’ conjugations to modify a verb as an adverbial. The second thing is that an attention needs to be paid the difference between the intransitive verb “Naru” and the transitive verb “Suru”. It seems that some students couldn’t get these basic concepts of Japanese grammar.

Date: April 26th on Sunday, 2020 from 9:50 to 11:20 (10:50 – 12:20 in JST)

Course: Japanese Listening 2

Used app: Streaming on DingTalk, Presentation by Powerpoint with 54 slides

Numbers of Students: 27

26 students stayed with me from the start to the end. One student is recorded his?her shorter attendance of 79 minutes.

Students’ Responses:

– Attendance Check : All the 27 students typed his/her attendance by themselves on BBS

– Quiz 1 : 23 students answered. This question was to ask if “Adj1 to Adj2” is right or not. This is not right. Two nouns can be stated in the form of ‘N1 to N2’, but two adjectives cannot be stated as ‘Adj1 to Adj2’.

– Quiz 2: 24  answered. Question was about “Wa-ga conflict”. Japanese learner is always confused by selection of particles, “-wa” or “-ga”. In this question, the sentence (1) uses “-ga” and the sentence (2) uses “-wa” as shown in Figure 1 below. 6 students got the right answer A, 18 got the wrong answer B. It seems still difficult to learn that “-ga” is exclusively picking up a word, while “-wa” is for stating a nature of the word that had already been recognized by both speaker and listener.

– Quiz at the End: 23 students typed a sentence that meant “[Noun1] is more [Adjective] than [Noun2]” (of course in Japanese).

Teaching:

1: Review of Grammatical Topics of the first half of Section 16 of the Textbook

– “-no” that makes an adjective a kind of noun

– Conjunctive particle “-kara” for stating a reason.

–  Introduction of sentences to say capability

– “-noda/nda” for explaining and/or revealing

– Auxiliary verb “-tai” to express one’s wish

– “-to” that is putting between the thoughts and a verb for thinking

2:  Sentences for comparison

3: Redo of listening activities of the last class and Today’s new ones.

Homework Assignment:

– Homework was not assigned during the class because I didn’t have time before the coming holidays. It was noticed to the students that I would give them homework in the following day, 27th (But I couldn’t).

Issues and Problems:

This is a listening course. I play the listening materials of the textbook, make the students think of answers, and then show them the answers. However, I am suspicious about the effectiveness of this teaching style for learning Japanese. It seems like the students’ understanding is not good as I expected. One way to improve the effectiveness would be to make the students make their own Japanese sentences as utterance. I am looking for a better way to do this. As part of this, I ask the students to make his/her own sentence at the end of the class. It seems like to help me find a misunderstanding of a particular student.

 

Figure.1 The Reasons for Use of “-ga” and “-wa” (Particularly for this Case)

Date: April 22th 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 (58 slides)

Numbers of Students: 27

26 students stayed with me from the start to the end. One student is recorded his?her shorter attendance of 81minutes.

Students’ Responses:

– Attendance Check : All the 27 students typed his/her attendance on BBS

– Quiz 1 : 23 students answered. This question was to measure students’ understanding about a newly introduced phrase [V-masu] -ni Ikimasu that means the purpose of movement.

– Quiz 2: 24  answered. Questions are to ask the difference between I-adjective “-hoshii” and auxiliary verb “-tai”. The slide for the answer is shown below as Figure 1.

– Quiz3: 24 answered. This question was to make the students answer their own preferences. The question was using the construction of the day; which do you like, a dog or cat? 18 students answered that they like cat, and only 6 students liked a dog.

– Quiz at the End: 27 students typed a sentence for question “Which do you like, A or B?”.

Teaching:

1: Review of conversation for suggestion and invitation.

2:Grammatical Topics of the first half of Section 16 of the Textbook

– A noun “Hou” that specifies one of the two as a selection.

– “-no” that makes an adjective a kind of noun

– Conjunctive particle “-kara” for stating a reason.

– Introduction of sentences to say capability

– “-noda/nda” for explaining and/or revealing

– Clauses that modify a noun

– Auxiliary verb “-tai” to express one’s wish

– “-to” that is putting between the thoughts and a thinking verb

Of course these topics were not the things that can be taught in one or two hours. I just explain briefly. I know that it was not enough for students to even figure out the concepts of these issues.

Homework Assignment:

– Homework was not assigned during the class. Although I said that it would be given through the BBS, it depends on me.

Issues and Problems:

– I am just wondering whether or not it could be effective by just playing the listening materials of the textbook and making the students listen to it. I think I have to do something to make it more effective. But I don’t know how to do right now.

 

Figure.1 The Difference between “-hoshii” and “-tai”

 

 

Date: April 20th on Monday, 2020 from 9:50 to 11:20 (10:50 – 11:20 in JST)

Course: Japanese Listening 2

Used app: Streaming on DingTalk, Presentation by Powerpoint (47 slides)

Numbers of Students: 27

25 students stayed with me from the start to the end. Two students were recorded with their shorter participation of 78 and 75 minutes.These students did not respond to any of four quiz during the class.

Students’ Responses:

– Attendance Check : All the 27 students typed “Shusseki” on BBS

– Quiz 1 : 24 students answered. The students were asked to find the right answer whose tense was appropriate related to time and the endings of a sentence.

– Quiz 2: 23 students answered. Question was to choose the right stroke order of Hiragana “NA” from two selections. 16 were right, 7 were wrong. However, maybe, some students write their “NA” in wrong order, but looking at other’s answer, they just answered as others did. Figure 1 below shows the slide to show the answer of this question.

– Quiz3: 22 students answered. This question was to find an intransitive verb from three selections. The answer could be reached by looking at particles.

– Quiz at the End: 25 students typed a phrases that meant “I went (to somewhere) to do something” in the form of “[Verb]-ni Ikimasu”. Two students mistakenly made phrases “[Noun]-ni Ikimsau”, but then they corrected.

Teaching:

1st Half: Review of the last class

– V-te Kudasai / V-nai de Kudasai ; To ask someone to do/ not to do something

– Ｖ1 nagara V2 suru : Two actions simultaneously or two occupations at the same time.

– To make verb phrase a noun phrase by putting “-no” right after the verb

– V(-masu)-ni Ikimasu : Purpose of going to somewhere

– Introduction of 4 usages of “V-teiru” in time sequence

2nd Half: Listening to Conversations of the textbook.

Homework Assignment:

No homework. The students were asked to study themselves.

Issues and Problems:

I prepared less PPT slides this time. However, some slides were left unused because of time.

 

Fig.1 Stroke Order of Hiragana “NA”

Date: April 15th 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 (52 slides)

Numbers of Students: 27

26 students stayed with me from the start to the end. One student is recorded his?her shorter attendance of 61minutes.

Students’ Responses:

– Attendance Check : All the 27 students typed his/her attendance on BBS

– Quiz 1 : 24 students answered. This question was to measure students’ understanding about listening materials. Most students sent wrong answers.

– Quiz 2: 25  answered. Questions are to check if the students know several usages of particle “-no” or not. The students were asked to choose a wrong usage of “-no” that was “-no” placed between an I-adjective and a noun.This error happens quite often for this country’s Japanese learners.

– Quiz3: 23 answered. This question was to ask what type of speech style was used in the conversation.

– Quiz at the End: 26 students typed a clause of “V1 nagara V2-masu”.

Teaching:

1: Review of conversation for suggestion and invitation.

2: Redo of two listening activities that were done in the last class. One was daily life of three persons, the other was talks travel experiences by three persons.

3: Preparation for the Section 15

– V-te Kudasai / V-nai de Kudasai

– V1 nagara V2

– Making a noun phrase from a verb phrase by placing “-no”

– To express the purpose of movement with “V(-masu) + ni + transferring verbs”

– Usages of Te-forms that appeared in section 15 of the textbook.

Homework Assignment:

– Writing “V-nai de Kudasai” and “V-te imasu” from dictionary forms.

Issues and Problems:

– This is a listening class. But the section 15 of the textbook includes a lot of important grammatical issues. It needs explanations in addition to listening activities that are needed most.

Date: April 13th on Monday, 2020 from 9:50 to 11:20 (10:50 – 11:20 in JST)

Course: Japanese Listening 2

Used app: Streaming on DingTalk, Presentation by Powerpoint (84 slides)

Numbers of Students: 27

24 students stayed with me from the start to the end. It seems that shorter participation is increasing; three students were recorded for their times as 82,74, and 72 minutes.

Students’ Responses:

– Attendance Check : All the 27 students typed “Shusseki” on BBS

– Quiz 1 : 27 students answered. This question was intended to know whether or not the students recognized that the man in the conversation was actually a suspicious guy.

– Quiz 2: 25  answered. Questions are to check if the students know or not the names of a cup of cold water, wet towel, and chop sticks in Japanese  restaurants.

– Quiz3: 24 answered. This question was to measure if students understand rough plot of the conversation or not.

– Quiz at the End: 26 students typed a sentence that meant “I am going to enjoy a party under the sakura flowers with my friends tomorrow”. One student missed particle “-o”.

Teaching:

1: Interrogative sentences of verbs predicate in past tense.

2: Listening to a Conversation for an invitation and making an appointment.

Homework Assignment:

Small test of particles “-ga”, “-o”, “-de”,”-ni”. Students are asked to fill blanks with particles in sentences. Deadline is 17th on Friday.

Issues and Problems:

It was difficult to conduct activities of conversation on line. I just imagine that the students are saying person B’s utterances while I speak as person A in a conversation.