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Date: May 12th 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 59 slides

Numbers of Students: 28

22 students participated for whole 90 minutes.

5 students were recorded for their short attendances: 83, 86, 42, 33, and 20 minutes

1 student was completely absent today

Responses to my requests like Quiz answers onto BBS:

– Attendance check by reporting his/her-selves: 27. ( One sent a message to tell me his absence beforehand)

– 5 Quiz were given to the students during the class. Answers to the 5-quiz were sent to me right after the class. Quiz to be posted on BBS was not given today. 24 students sent the answers to me.

Teaching:

– Review and explanations for two questions of 5-question quiz in the last class.

-1: Particle “-o” should not be used for the intransitive verb “Naru”.

1st question of 5-q quiz was given for this issue. Still one student thought it was okay to use “-o” for the sentence of intransitive verb ” Naru”.

-2: There is a difference between “V-te ita” and “V-te kita” in terms of tense-aspect.

– A new task for the last half of the second semester

The student were asked to start a task to write with good formatting as a document. The topic was sightseeing of a particular prefecture in Japan. Students were asked to write a paper with internet research and to make a suggestion for the better sightseeing services of the prefecture. Each student chose his/her prefecture in the class.

– Learning using the textbook.

2nd question of 5-q quiz: Choosing the right combinations of particles. Over-generalization of “Wa-ga construction” is one issue. But there is another issue that even in the case that “Wa-ga construction” can be used, many students make error for uses of particles “wa” and “ga”. 10 students made this type of error.

< For time limitation, the rest of the teaching was suspended to be recorded here>

Homework:

– The students were asked modifying the template for the paper by filling the chapter titles of our task

Issues and Problems:

< No time to write now>

Date: May 9th on Saturday, 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 80 slides

Numbers of Students: 28

25 students participated for whole 90 minutes.

3 students were recorded for their short attendances: 57, 44, 32 minutes

Responses to my requests like Quiz answers onto BBS:

– Attendance check by reporting his/her-selves: 28.

– 1st Quiz: 26 students responded. This was to correct the erroneous sentence with over-generalization of “Wa-ga construction”.

– In the rest of the class, the students were given 5-question quiz. A student answered a question by taking a memo, and sent five answers right after the class. This also worked as an attendance check at the end of the class.

Teaching:

– Feedback about the students’ compositions about a health care worker from abroad.

– Review and summary of the first half of this semester.

Homework:

– Homework assignment was suspended. Although the second drafting for the essay about a health care worker must be assigned, I haven’t yet evaluated their first draft.

Issues and Problems:

The result of the quiz showed that some students didn’t understand the difference between “-teiru” and “-tekuru”. For other issues, however, I have no time to write them right now.

Date: May 8th 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 79 slides

Numbers of Students: 24 out of 28

90 minutes attendance: 14 students

Shorter attendances: 87, 86, 84, 69, 58, 51, 14, 5, 4, and 3 minutes.

completely absent: 4 students

Responses to my requests like Quiz answers onto BBS:

Attendance check: 24. But, of these, one student was recorded as “Completely Absent” on the system. One student came late.

Quiz 1 : 23 students responded. The question was to find an error on use of particle. Not “-ga” but “-o” must be used for the object of an intransitive verb.

Only the quiz No.1 was done using BBS during the class. Instead, five questions were given to the students. And they were asked to send five answers immediately after the class.

Teaching:

– Feedback about the homework assignment which was to write an essay about an episode of a health care worker from abroad.

– Review of the first half of this semester. Five questions were given to the students in order to check their understanding for the issues that were already explained in the classes so far.

Homework:

– HW is suspended until I evaluate and send back the first drafts that were expressions about reading health care workers from abroad.

Issues and Problems:

<No time to write them right now>

Date: April 28th 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 65 slides

Numbers of Students: 28

24 students participated for whole 90 minutes.

4 students were recorded for their short attendances: 84, 83, 82, 74 minutes

Responses to my requests like Quiz answers onto BBS:

– Attendance check by reporting his/her-selves: 28.

– 1st Quiz: 24 students responded. This was to ask whether or not the students know the old story about how the word for proofreading and revising a document “Suikou came from. Actually the question was asked not that if he/she knows it but that if a student have been taught this story in the school. All of them answered they learned the story in school.

– 2nd Quiz: 24 students responded. This question was the same as asked in the class 1939  just two days before. The question was about “Wa-ga conflict”. 24 students of 1st grade answered 18 wrong and 6 right answers. In this class, all of second grade students answered right one although it was likely some of them were just referring to answers already written on the BBS.

– 3rd Quiz; 24 students responded. This was a quiz but its purpose is to make the students understand the importance of detailed and concrete explanation. The question asked how much detailed explanation was needed until a student got the concept of “Sasa-dango” which is Niigata’s specialty. All the students answered that they figured out what it was like by the D that is shown in Figure 1 below.

– Attendance check at the end : 26 students responded.The students were asked to submit 5 answers that were asked during the class. The five quiz were given separately from three “Are-You-with-Me Quiz” above. Although I asked to sent it immediately after the class, 2 students sent to me 1 day or 2 days late. For those student, the half of the score was added to their gradings.

Teaching:

1st half:

– Review of the short test about particles.

– Feedback about the second drafts of compositions “How to Use ‘-ga’ and ‘-o'”. I corrected students’ misunderstanding that ‘-ga’ is to be used in an intransitive verb predicate sentences. It is likely that ‘-ga’ is used in sentences of intransitive verb, but it is not always as shown in Figure2.

2nd half

– From the textbook; it was a little detailed word to word cautions.

– Explanations for the homework assignment.

Homework:

1: Write a short essay for student’s expression about an article.

2: Read part of a book about job seeking.

Issues and Problems:

<No time to write them right now>

 

Figure 1. How far an Explanation must be Done for Readers’ Understanding

 

Figure 2. Use of Particle “-ga” in Two-Segment Sentences

Date: April 24th 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 68 slides

Numbers of Students: 26 out of 28

90 minutes attendance: 18 students

Shorter participation: 74, 66, 52, 51, 49, 36, and 2 minutes, and the shortest was 8 seconds.

completely absent: 2 students

Responses to my requests like Quiz answers onto BBS:

Attendance check: 26. But, of these, two students were recorded as “Completely Absent” on the system. Two students indicated coming late.

Quiz 1 : 21 students responded. The question was to ask correct stroke order of hiragana “NA”. 19 were right and 2 were wrong.

Quiz 2: 22 responses. The same question was given as class 1836 on April 21st.

Quiz3: 21 students responded. The same question was given as class 1836 on April 21st.

Attendance check at the end of class: the students were asked to submit 5 answers for the questions during the class.

 

Teaching:

The same as composition class for 1836 on Tuesday. However, the quiz of 5 questions resulted in differently. The four questions were to measure how the students understood the poem “Yuugata-no Sanjippun” well. As opposed to my expectation, many errors happened to class 1837 students more than 1836. So far I don’t know the reason.

 

Homework:

It was planned to make the student write the second draft of memorandum about how to use particles “-ga” and “-o”. However, I was too busy to give them instructions for the second drafting, assigning the homework was suspended.

Issues and Problems:

<No time to write them>

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.