I went to Australia three years ago. That was study tour in foreign country of my high school, and I had been in Australia for two weeks.
When I was in Australia, I went to school in Australia and took classes with my Japanese school friends. We did not get used to speaking in English so we spoke in Japanese during classes even if the teacher told us to speak Japanese. Of course we were talking in English with people in Australia but when we talk with Japanese people, we spoke in Japanese.
One day, we did survival game which we did in ASP class. We discussed which is the most important thing to survive in desert, but in Japanese. However, when I did the same game in ASP class, I realized that we should have done the survival game in Australia in English. I thought "Why we did the game in Japanese? I should have done that in English because we went to Australia in order to improve my English skill."
After that, I noticed that we really hesitated to speak in English with Japanese people. We were very shy to speak in English. However, now, in ICU ELP class, it is natural to speak in English with Japanese people. So we did survival game in English.
The conclusion is....My English skill especially speaking skill was improved compared with when I was a high school student. I want to improve my English skill more and more next four years in ICU.
2007年6月15日金曜日
2007年6月11日月曜日
Sports Festival
Today, I would like to tell you about my high school's sports festival. There are two big event in my high school and they are School Festival and Sports Festival. Second grade students make committee of school festival and third grade students make committee of sports festival. Especially, sports festival is very special event for our high school students, so we prepare for sports festival from October in the second grade and we spend about one year for preparing for sports festival.
In my high school, there are some parts and they are Mass game, Cheerleading, Cheering party, Producting, Making costumes and so on. I was in Mass game part for three years and I love Mass game and when I was third grade student, I spent my all summer vacation for Mass game and I did not study at all although I was a student preparing for taking an examination.
Sports festival of my high school is my pride!! If I could go back, I want to go back to when I was a high school student. Some people make light of our sports festival but even though, I love my high school's sports festival. If you want to look our sports festival, please click and jump to this cite!!
http://massgamers.web.fc2.com/mass/mass%20top.html
I would be glad if you are interested in our high school sports festival!!
In my high school, there are some parts and they are Mass game, Cheerleading, Cheering party, Producting, Making costumes and so on. I was in Mass game part for three years and I love Mass game and when I was third grade student, I spent my all summer vacation for Mass game and I did not study at all although I was a student preparing for taking an examination.
Sports festival of my high school is my pride!! If I could go back, I want to go back to when I was a high school student. Some people make light of our sports festival but even though, I love my high school's sports festival. If you want to look our sports festival, please click and jump to this cite!!
http://massgamers.web.fc2.com/mass/mass%20top.html
I would be glad if you are interested in our high school sports festival!!
2007年6月10日日曜日
Critical thinking
I think that critical thinking is one of the main skill in the ELP classes. We read Meiland's idea or attitudes toward study in the ELP reader in ARW.
In that book, Meiland said that we have to examine the "obvious" things because they are so obvious that we have not examined them and so, they are unjustified. I think the meaning of the words which Meiland said is about critical thinking.
In classes, if our attitudes toward study are passive and we do not have any question about the contents of the words of teachers or what they said, it improve our knowledge only a little. The attitudes are really the same as which are in high school. The way of study in high school is to memorize. In Japan, there are a lot of college students whose attitudes toward study are passive, like only listening to lectures and taking note about on the black board, so they think college are the extension of high school. However, in ICU there are ELP and we have to discuss and think about a theme. In order to discuss and think, we have to read the text book carefully. In that process, we will have some questions about contents of the text. So we would try to solve these questions, and it makes us more improved.
So, we need a critical thinking to improve our knowledge the way of thinking, and skill to study.
In that book, Meiland said that we have to examine the "obvious" things because they are so obvious that we have not examined them and so, they are unjustified. I think the meaning of the words which Meiland said is about critical thinking.
In classes, if our attitudes toward study are passive and we do not have any question about the contents of the words of teachers or what they said, it improve our knowledge only a little. The attitudes are really the same as which are in high school. The way of study in high school is to memorize. In Japan, there are a lot of college students whose attitudes toward study are passive, like only listening to lectures and taking note about on the black board, so they think college are the extension of high school. However, in ICU there are ELP and we have to discuss and think about a theme. In order to discuss and think, we have to read the text book carefully. In that process, we will have some questions about contents of the text. So we would try to solve these questions, and it makes us more improved.
So, we need a critical thinking to improve our knowledge the way of thinking, and skill to study.
2007年6月5日火曜日
Dialects
My division is Language at ICU. Now, I take two foundation classes. One is "Approaches to the study of language" and another is "Introduction to the study of the Japanese language". At "Approaches to the study of language" class, we learned about dialect. I'm from Hiroshima so I have a lot of dialect like "~jakee" or "taigii" and so on. "~jakee" means "dakara" in the Japanese standard language and "so" in English. Also, "taigii" means "mendoukusai" in the Japanese standard language and "troublesome" in English.
Dialect is surveyed at 2400 areas in Japan using a riddle form from 1955 to 1965. It was very interested to me that the dialect is roughly divided into three. "Eastern dialect" , "Western dialect" and "Ryukyu dialect". They have some equivalent hiragana. Eastern "i" equal Western "o" equal Ryukyu's "u". For example, Eastern Japanese people say "iru" that means "be present" but Western people say "oru" and Ryukyu people say "uru".
Of course we have more and more small division of dialect. There are some similar words and there also are some very different words. For example, we say "arigatou" that means "thank you" in most area, but in the Izumo district that is in Shimane prefecture, they say "dandan".
However, by the advance of mass media, the standard language spread out to whole Japan, so some dialects have not been used. I think dialects show the characteristic of the area so I want the dialects exist. To make exsist dialects, we should talk with elederly people who know dialect well.
Dialect is surveyed at 2400 areas in Japan using a riddle form from 1955 to 1965. It was very interested to me that the dialect is roughly divided into three. "Eastern dialect" , "Western dialect" and "Ryukyu dialect". They have some equivalent hiragana. Eastern "i" equal Western "o" equal Ryukyu's "u". For example, Eastern Japanese people say "iru" that means "be present" but Western people say "oru" and Ryukyu people say "uru".
Of course we have more and more small division of dialect. There are some similar words and there also are some very different words. For example, we say "arigatou" that means "thank you" in most area, but in the Izumo district that is in Shimane prefecture, they say "dandan".
However, by the advance of mass media, the standard language spread out to whole Japan, so some dialects have not been used. I think dialects show the characteristic of the area so I want the dialects exist. To make exsist dialects, we should talk with elederly people who know dialect well.
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