Crazy Chicken
Research Topic: To what extent are students able to use target English expressions in role play in a content-based language lesson?
Reading: What is focus on form instruction? What kind of instruction is effective for grammar learning?
Schedule: View Kitakami class videos for 10/10, 10/17, and 10/24. In transana, write how the teacher introduces the key expressions.
On 10/31, help students prepare for role play as an assistant teacher.
11/21, record students’ role play. Analyze the types of expressions students used. Answer the question to what extent were students able to use the target expressions and why?
Sapphire
Research Topic: What kind of communication strategies will elementary school students use in a task-based lesson?
Schedule: After 9/12, research the following: What is Task based language teaching and how can it be effective? What are communication strategies and what kinds of communication strategies are effective for language learning?
On 11/7, record student interaction at Fuzoku ES. Answer the following questions: What kind of communication strategies are necessary to do the activity successfully? What kind of communication strategies are the students using? What are the implications for teaching communication strategies to elementary school students?
Nobita
Research Topic: A comparison of TOEIC Bridge and the Iwate English Teacher Employment Test? What English skills do each target and how do they target them?
Schedule:
Step 1: Background research
After test (9/20), read to answer the following question:
Skills that English teachers need (JACET 成長する英語教師, ETM textbook, etc.)
What are the fundamentals of good language tests?
What kind of language tests will assess the kinds of abilities English teachers need?
How many prefectures use TOEIC how many prefectures use their own English tests? What are the reasons for these decisions?
Step 2: Make a rubric for analysing TOIEC and 教員採用試験
Step 3: Compare the tests
Schedule for Second Semester
9/26, Saturday, Miyako HS: Amya Miller, The role of volunteers in the Revitalization of Iwate
9/28 Taro Kindergarten (General)
Sapphire: 10/6 – 10/20 Ueda
10/10: Miyako HS, Talk about Thailand
James: 10/10 – 10/20, Myanmar
Nobita: 10/18 Shiogama City Test (?)
10/20 – 10/26 Thai teachers!!!!!
10/24 Exchange between Thai teachers and Miyako HS students
10/28 Taro Kindergarten (Halloween)
12/16 Taro Kindergarten (Santa Claus)
Crazy Chicken: 10/6 – 10/20 Fuzoku JHS
1/3 – 1/17 Thailand
By the end of November, you should have finished over 60% of your thesis
We should finish 80 – 90 percent of our theses before winter vacation!