Wanda:
In Indonesia, they use Jolly Phonics (England) and Floppy Phonics (American).
Comparison of letter instruction between Japan and Indonesia.
Next week, come up with research question.
Things that Wanda can compare:
- textbooks (Indonesia/Japan ES, JHS)
- curricula (Indonesia/Japan)
- methodology
- lesson plans
- media
- classroom observations
Example question:
What are problematic English sounds for Japanese children? How are these sounds addressed in phonics lessons?
Genghis
– She made a graph to compare CLIL, CBI, and CBLT. this is necessary before introducing CLIL as a means to analyze textbooks.
- Definitions
- Goals
- Characteristics
- Benefits
- Weak points
- Implementation
- Student level
Using the above criteria, Genghis will have to provide a rationale for using CLIL over the other teaching approaches to analyze the textbook.
Paper
- Intro
- Lit. review
- What is CLIL?
- History of CLIL
- Definition of CLIL and comparing with other methods
- Use of CLIL throughout the world
- History of EE in Japan from ….. to today
- What has Japan aimed for in the past, present, and future?
- Critical of these goals: Are they realistic? Have the been criticized?
- The Place of CLIL in current Japanese English Education
- HS?
- The Role of the Textbook
- Research questions:
- To what extent do HS communication textbooks include CLIL principles?
- What is CLIL?
- Method
- Textbooks and how they were chosen
- Criteria and how they were developed
- Meaning of the scales
- How textbooks were evaluated? Who? How?
- How did you ensure reliability and validity?
- Findings
- Discussion
- Suggestion ( lesson plans for using the communication textbooks for a CLIL lesson)
- (Based on the strengths and weaknesses of the books, propose lesson plans)
- Conclusion
Next week: Rough draft of the methodology chapter
Teddy presented his literature review
- The situation of English teaching in Japan
- JHS education system in Japan
- JHS system in Iwate
- Eiken
- Role of the textbook
- JHS textbook in Iwate
- What has Japan aimed for the EE from the past, present, and future