タグ: 業務記録

Date: June 19th on Friday, 2020 from 13:40 to 15:10 (14:40 – 16:10 in JST)

Course: Japanese Conversation 4

Used app: Video conference on DingTalk, BBS was also used supplementarily to show some pictures during the video conference. The teacher used Powerpoint on part of computer display. The PPT was a kind of aid for teacher to conduct the class and also for playing audio that was embedded to a slide.   

Numbers of Students:

 – At the beginning: 26 by Self-claiming attendance by the means of input “Shusseki” onto BBS

 – At the end: 20 by asking a question

Class Activities:

 – Introduction of Causative-Passive sentences using “Dekiru Nihongo” Chap.13

 – The teacher asked the students many questions using the function of video conference. So the class activities were mush interactive.

Homework Assignment:

 – No HWA

Issues and Problems:

I asked the students whether or not he/she had the textbook there. This was the question that I made at the end of the class to check their attendance through the class time. The answer was surprise to me. None of them has it. They all left the textbook in the university dormitory. Until that time, I didn’t know that . Without knowing they didn’t have the textbook, I have already done most of the semester. I usually put all the pictures onto my PPT slides. Therefore the students hadn’t feel the necessity of textbook. So no one student told me that.

Date: June 17th 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, BBS was also used so that students could refer to during the video conference. Twelve images and three audio clips were presented on the BBS for the class 1837.

Numbers of Students: 24 out of 28. Four students were thought to be absent throughout the class

Class Activities:

-Causative sentences of the type that gives a permission.

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Homework Assignment:

– No HA.

Issues and Problems:

Video conference was often stopped. It seems that much more capacity is needed on internet communication when we do video conference.

Interactive activities took more minutes than I thought. I think it is okay because I still have many hours to teach until the semester ends. How much I taught is not a matter. How much the students have learned is the matter.

Date: June 15th on Monday, 2020 from 8:00 to 9:30 (9:00 – 10:30 in JST)

Course: Japanese Conversation 4

Used app: Streaming on DingTalk, Presentation by Powerpoint with 64 slides

Numbers of Students: 26 out of 28.

– Fully attendant for 90min : 21

– Shorter signing-in: 86, 47, and 26 seconds.

– Two students can be assumed their participation through the activities, although the system recorded no signing in.

Responses onto the BBS:

– Attendance check by a student his/herself: 26.

– 1st Quiz: 19 students responded.

– 2nd Quiz: 26 students responded.

– Attendance check at the end: 19 students responded.

Teaching: 

– Causative sentences, issues of “-totte” v.s. “-taishite”,  and “V1-ta toorini V2”

Homework Assignment:

– Five students were asked to send a MP3 or M4A by Wednesday night. Those students were asked to record their own speaking of conversation between two part time job workers.

Issues and Problems:

This was the last time that I taught in the form of PPT slide show streaming. The following conversation classes for 1837 class were changed to be in the form of Video conference. This change happened because I had to do many supplementary classes in the last three weeks of this semester.

Date: June 12th on Friday, 2020 from 13:40 to 15:10 (14:40 – 16:10 in JST)

Course: Japanese Conversation 4

Used app: Streaming on DingTalk, Presentation by Powerpoint with 68 slides

Numbers of Students: 24 of 28, 4 were recorded as completely absent by the system. Of the four, one student sent me a message for sick leave before the class.

Fully attendant for 90min : 19

Shorter signing-in: 86, 79, 73, 65 minutes and 1 minute.

Responses onto the BBS:

– Attendance check by a student his/herself : 25 students input “Shusseki” onto BBS. However one student was recorded by the system as completely absent and did not leave any activities for quiz. Therefore the student was judged as absent.

– 1st Quiz: 20 students responded. The quiz was to choose right combinations of particles and causative forms of verbs.

– 2nd Quiz: 20 students responded. Before the quiz, procedures of cooking curry was explained in Japanese. The quiz was to choose the order of three major steps in cooking curry. This quiz was not just for fun, but to measure how the students understand the abstract idea and to make this a kind of introduction of a construction “V1-ta To’orini, V2-te kudasai”

– Attendance check at the end: 20 students responded. Students were asked to choose the right sentence from the five that were to be the construction “V1-ta To’orini, V2-te kudasai”.

Teaching: 

– Pronunciation of the small “-tsu”: Small “-tsu” should be silent of length of 1 mora when it is before a explosive sound. 1 mora length of silence was shown using Figure1 below. When a small “-tsu” is before friction sound, it becomes 1 mora length of friction sound. 

– Review of causative sentences with comparisons between causative sentences of intransitive verbs and of transitive verbs.

– Exercises of conversations using causative sentences whose actions were expressed by intransitive verbs.

 – Introduction and exercise of a construction  “V1-ta To’orini, V2-te kudasai”.

Homework Assignment:

– Five students were asked to send a mp3 or m4a sound data by speaking the script of conversation of two part time job workers; Park-san and Chin-san that was in Dekiru Nihongo (yellow).

Issues and Problems:

<I don’t have time to write them>