{"id":39,"date":"2014-11-05T08:58:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T08:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jameslab.edublogs.org\/?p=39"},"modified":"2014-11-05T08:58:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T08:58:00","slug":"november-5-planning-our-theses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/logos.edu.iwate-u.ac.jp\/jhoffice\/november-5-planning-our-theses\/","title":{"rendered":"November 5, Planning our Theses!!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Superman<\/strong><\/p>\n

What: Chants and how children benefit from doing chants<\/p>\n

Reasons:<\/p>\n

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  1. Societal needs<\/li>\n
  2. The need for speaking<\/li>\n
  3. The Course of Study<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Research questions:<\/p>\n

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    1. What are chants?<\/li>\n
    2. Why do we need chants?<\/li>\n
    3. Types of chants?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      How:<\/p>\n

      Literature review (Books and internet)<\/p>\n

      James’s advice: Research questions or graduate theses need to be about topics that we do not know the answer to.<\/p>\n

      Title: Proposing a chant syllabus for elementary school foriegn language activities.<\/p>\n

      RQ:<\/p>\n

      What are the characteristics of chants that can encourage second language acquisition?<\/p>\n

      How can these chants be incorporated into a syllabus.<\/p>\n

      Helpful link: http:\/\/www.tefl-c.com\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Unit_14_Teaching_Through_Songs_and_Chants-May-2009-B.pdf<\/p>\n

      Another idea: Comparision of chants in Hi, Friends with ……<\/p>\n

      Third Idea: Only Hi, Friends!<\/p>\n

      If you do this, then you need to devise criteria for examining the chants.<\/p>\n

      By next week, please devise the criteria<\/p>\n

      Paper:<\/p>\n

      1) Background research on chants<\/p>\n

      Lit Review<\/strong><\/p>\n

      a) Elementary School English Education in Japan<\/p>\n

      b) Chants<\/p>\n

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      1. History<\/li>\n
      2. Genres<\/li>\n
      3. Types of Uses<\/li>\n
      4. Effectiveness of<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        C) The place of chants in elementary school English in Japan<\/p>\n

        D)Based on 1 to 4, propose criteria for assessing chants in textbooks in Japan<\/p>\n

        Research Question<\/strong><\/p>\n

        What are the major genres of chants oin hi, Friends?<\/p>\n

        How are chants utlized for learning language in hi, Friends?<\/p>\n

        Results<\/strong><\/p>\n

        Your analysis of the chants in Hi, Friends!<\/p>\n

        Discussion<\/strong><\/p>\n

        Significance of your results<\/p>\n

        ———<\/p>\n

        Bruno<\/strong><\/p>\n

        Bruno will teach a class using this song<\/a>.<\/p>\n

        By next week give me a proposal for a class. Particularly talk about WHAT you will investigate. Ideas are vocabulary acquisition, grammar rule learning, listening strategies, pronunciation, intonation, learning phrases, catching students’ interest.<\/p>\n

        ——-<\/p>\n

        Emo<\/strong><\/p>\n

        Effective ways to use picture books.<\/p>\n

        What: <\/strong>She wants to research picture books that are effective for children and the way that they are effective.<\/p>\n

        How: <\/strong>Reading<\/p>\n

        Ideas<\/p>\n

        – Using Eric Carle’s ((Name of books) to design a language learning module for first and second grade.<\/p>\n

        Part 1: Research the uses and effectiveness of picture books (By next week, please talk about Part 1)<\/p>\n

        Part 2: Design a learning module which incorporates the criteria determined in Part 1.<\/p>\n

        Part 3: Get feedback from 5 teachers about the palusibility of doing this module.<\/p>\n

        ———————-<\/p>\n

        Ao-chan<\/strong><\/p>\n

        Topic: <\/strong>A study about the education for internaional understanding for English classes in Japan<\/p>\n

        Literature Review: <\/strong><\/p>\n