April 27, 2016: Determining our schedule

Photo on 4-27-16 at 4.50 PM

First we made a schedule then we determined topics.

Penelope’s topics of interest are:

  • Teaching speaking so that students can perform well on the new Center Test
  • Team teaching
  • How English teachers in Japan make use of the good points ESL
  • Active learning
  • Focus on meaning
  • CALP (Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency)
  • BICS (Basic interpersonal communicative skills)

Rocky’s topics of interest are

  • Second Language Acquisition
  • Speaking: Children in Kansai learn English speaking earlier than Tohoku, she wants to compare the children’s speaking skills.
  • Active learning

Here is an example of how to narrow down a topic:

Main Topic: Education

Education sub: teaching English, understanding students, development, class management

Teaching English: Development

Development in teaching English: Children’s linguistic development

Children’s linguistic development: speaking

Children’s linguistic development in speaking: how do students progress from single-word utterances to speaking in phrases/sentences?

Next time: Try to break down your topic.

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