Takeshi Hamada
Perceptions of “international society” in Japanese and US education.
Define the construct:
globalization, global education, international understanding, global skills, etc….
Shinchan
Compare elementary school English education in Finland with English education in Japan.
Tetsuko
Effectiveness of activities in Foreign Language Activities
Matching activities and goals.
- Analyze the textbook and categorize the activities.
- Give a questionnaire to teachers asking them the goal of specific activities, the benefits, and the problematic areas.
Tsushi
About introducing foreign language activities to young learners.
Sakuranbo
Research about mixed-level class. Yama-san made some goals for students, and then made a bonus goal.
Junior
Good exercise, good test, good assessment from the point of communicative language teaching.
- Analyze real tests (tests that teachers made)
- Make a test and investigate it’s reliability
- Analyze the Center test and consider what kind of communicative abilities it can promote
- Does the 実力テスト really test real ability?
- Speaking assessment
- Listening assessment
- Design and pilot a rubric for writing assessment in JHS
Next time:
- Find resources.
- Bring your computers, so we can practice how to use Mendeley
- Download and install Mendeley: https://www.mendeley.com/