Our goals or big events
Jamie
- April 20: 盛岡一周継走
- May 18: Hachinohe Umineko Half Marathon
- June 8: Run 100km marathon
- July 5th & 6th 全国小学校英語教育学会研究大会 in Akita City 秋田国際教養大学
- August 8 – 10 全国英語教育学会研究大会 in Saitama (獨協大学）(James wants to know about your experiences)
- 科研費：Develop ePortolios
Yuiko
- Study for the teacher’s test (Iwate, JHS): July 12, Eiken, Graduate school,
- My birthday : May 1st
- Trip to ???
Yura
- My birthday : May 14th
- decide my job
- enjoy my teaching practice at Fuzoku special needs school
Kai
- My birthday : May 15th
- Syudy hard for the teacher’s test (Iwate, ES)
- Visit some Graduate school ?
- training my hand power
Hiroki
- Birthday: Feb 19
- Find a thesis topic
- Study for Eiken and 教員採用試験
Hiroyuki
- December 2
- study for 教員採用試験（Iwate JHS）
- my teaching practice at Fuzoku special needs school (May 1 ~ 16)
Our Topics
Oku
Theme 1
- 目的、場面、状況：How to set it up in classes
- Options: Observe classes/ interview teachers/ analyze textbooks/ teach a trial lesson
Theme 2
- Students’ reasoning for studying English
Yura Yura
Option 1
- Psychology and language activities
Option 2
- Which topics are more conducive to langauge activities? (日本の英語教育を問い直す八つの異論)
Kai Kai
intercultural competence – RQ: What are the factors of the change in students’ intercultural competence in a university a multicultural communication class
Hiroki O
Original interest
Learning process of polyglots
Plan B
- Design a “karaoke English” application to help learners improve their intonation/accent(?)
Hiroyuki N
Analysis of the previous JHS textbook and new JHS textbook
From the perspective of vocabulary or model dialogues (grammar & functions)
Schedule
April 16: Discuss our goals
April 23: Learn to use Zotero
May 7: Find sources and practice summarizing
May 14: Find more sources and practice summarizing, help James with data analysis
May 21: Hiroki and Kai Kai help everyone get caught up. Review of the structure of a paper
May 28: Bicycle or Nature walk
June 4: Research questions and methodology
June 11: Outlines (What sections will you have from beginning to end?)
June 18: Outlines
June 25: Working on Introduction
July 2: Literature review
July 9: Literature review
July 16: Methodology
July 23: Making plans for the second semester