Issues
- Teaching grammar from the textbooks is necessary
- Many teachers in Iwate only do practice
- Many teachers might misunderstand interaction
- Interaction is not practiced much in the English class
- Textbook content does not always match speaking and interaction topics for A1 in CEFR.
- Interaction goals for A1 are very modest
- Interaction is now in the new Course of Study
Necessities (Previous SLA Research)
- Focused task can be a source of practice
- There should be an element of Negotiation of Meaning
Unknowns
- What skills do students want to acquire?
- What skills do students already have?
- Tamotsu Sensei will make a self evaluation sheet for students to write.
- Ideas for the questionnaire
- Ask students what they can to do
- Ask students what they want to be able to do
- Ask students how interested they are in English
- Ask students whether they study English outside of school/ have been to a foreign country, etc.