英文摘要 |
'Japanese in news'' is a subject in Japanese language course which is devoted to make the learners acquire Japanese used in the actual society. Unlike other ordinary subjects that utilizes textbooks which consist of ''normalized'' contents, ''Japanese in news'' gives opportunity for the learners to acquire skills to operate both their native and Japanese language by learning, for instance, not only the actual Japanese society, but also how to interpret and get across to individual news. This paper is a case study report in ''Japanese in news'' class, designed from Project Based Learning (PBL) utilizing ''mawashi-yomi shimbun'' (lit. ''passed-around newspaper'': a group activity to edit a hand-made newspaper which consists of several interrelated articles, excerpted in a thorough theme from newspapers which are passed around among the group). The author aimed a comprehensive learning of reading Japanese, comprehension of news articles by discussion, editing, production and presentation in Chinese by the ''shimbun'', which advocates ''playing by newspapers'', used in the plain steps of PBL. In the result, by informing/coaching ''skills that would be acquired by following each step'', the learners were able to be conscious and intentional of the skills which were aimed to acquire. Analyzing the memoirs by the learners, an active attitude to recognize the lack in their Japanese competence and to think about a solution to strengthen their communication skills was revealed. In addition, the learners described reflections that they achieved a significant result in the Project in the step for retrospective view for checking of progress. |