Understanding and motivating language learning in today's Australia: challenges and ideas.
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Friday, Session 1 - Oxford 1 and 2 “I was able to tell my story”: Gifted language learners and a learning task in senior secondary Japanese study At advanced levels of senior secondary language learning, many students can be considered gifted language learners. This study observes a small group of senior secondary language learners, and their response to a speech writing task. It collected data from the students while they were preparing, their actual speech texts, and a post-task discussion. The learning context for these students, including autonomous learning outside school, is designed to support production of more sophisticated language and ideas, and an impetus to develop opinions about personal future goals, in Japanese. The study offers some insights into pedagogy for gifted language learners, and catalyst elements operating in the learners which contribute to constructing talented language development. What is standards-setting and how does it work? -30 Minute Bostes presentation
Friday, Session 1 - Taylor RoomIn this session, participants will gain basic cultural knowledge about Omatsuri, They will explore how to teach Japanese numbers 1-10 and word rhythm using Taiko. Other hands-on extension activities will be also introduced, including how to make your own Taiko with a plastic container and adance to reinforce Japanese numbers.
Please leave your feedback and great ideas in the comment section below Friday, Session 1 - Riley RoomDo you ever feel that organising a Japan Study Tour is hard and gruesome and very few people in the school see the fruits of your labours? Do you feel more like a tour conductor than a teacher when you are in Japan? No longer!! This talk is a practical look at not only how to design the tour to maximise learning outcomes whilst in Japan, but how we can also get maximum mileage across the school in the periods between tours.
Caroline David takes students to Japan every year and has seen the number of students studying Japanese more than double at her school through changing the way she designs tours, and shameless promotion of Languages year around. This talk will include a Q&A session at the end for you to ask the questions you have always wanted answered. Friday, Session 2 - Oxford 1 and 2A common comment from students is that Japanese writing is difficult. This method of learning script is not only easy but fun. The aim of this workshop is to provide participants with a method for introducing Japanese script from lesson one without the need for romaji.
There is a specific focus on each step of literacy development from individual characters to extracting information from authentic written text, including ideas for producing higher order thinking tasks. Sue will outline games and strategies to provide teachers with ways to build students’ skills and confidence in reading and writing Japanese. Friday, Session 2 - Taylor RoomChef Hideo Dekura is now offering cooking incursions to schools. His workshops include making sushi, background to culinary history, Japanese ingredients and utensils, calligraphy and tea ceremony cuisine. Dekura sensei will display some dishes that he makes with students and explain the opportunities he can provide for your students to learn the values, traditions and history of Japan through hands-on cooking lessons. He has received wonderful feedback from students and teachers for his lessons. Engaging 21st century learners -30 minutesWhen we consider 21st Century learners and how best to engage them we naturally turn to technology. How can we use technology wisely in the classroom and how do we build rapport to engage 21st Century Learners? - There's no app for that. Please leave your comments, musings and brilliant suggestions in the comments section below.
Friday, Session 2 - Riley RoomThis session will focus on catering for students with special needs in Japanese classes (particularly the Stage 4 mandatory course) tied in with classroom management (links to PBL: positive behaviour for learning). . I Insights into useful classroom management ideas and strategies, particularly with challenging Stage 4 classes. Please leave some feedback or ideas below.
Friday- after lunch - Oxford 1 and 2 Presentation by combined universities Information from various universities about opportunities for tertiary study of Japanese. Nihongo Tanken Centre Presentation by Mieko Shida, coordinator at the Centre Please leave your thoughts, feedback and great ideas in the comments area below.
Friday, Session 3 -Oxford 1 and 2A look into catering to students of mixed ability with differing preferred
learning styles. Creating differentiated assessment tasks allowing choice in tasks while covering language outcomes. Presentation of assessment tasks using‘Glogster’. Demonstration of a variety of teaching and learning Apps and programs which allow students to work at their own pace. Friday, Session 3 - Taylor RoomYoko will walk through Click Nippon, a website which provides
content related to Japan that can’t be found by Google, and stimulates students’ thinking by ‘Meeting Others and Self in Depth’. Then, as an example, Yoko will share her lesson using one of the items from Click Nippon and her students’ outcomes.Teachers are also encouraged to share and discuss class activity ideas usingmaterials from the site |
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