英文摘要 |
This paper features ''Japanese in newspapers'', one of classes for the fourth grade undergraduate students, as a material for a case study. This holds a high contrast with the others in its demand for aiming acquisition of two or more language skills, rather than only one of the so-called five skills. This class in general does the ''wrap up'' with several presentations for achieve the educational goal. The presentations, which require several activities including presenting theme(s) and stimuli for thinking, encourage carrying out various skills. Finally, the participants fill Rubric for reflections and the subsequent awareness, which contribute to effective reform of the class design and the forms themselves by the instructor. This paper argues that the evaluation form was successful in visualizing the class participants' various awareness from reflections, and that there was a tendency that self-evaluation was lower than evaluation to the others. The learners who marked high self-evaluation were able to present strategy for learning in free description. On the other hand, those who marked lower self-evaluation (in comparison with that to the others) virtually only noticed the technical procedure of the presentations and lacked a vision to strategy for learning. The awareness by the learners constitutes a very important part for planning the class design and the aim for the class by the instructors. It probably leads to a conclusion that presence of an educational goal which is oriented to needs by the learners leads to an authentic acquisition. |