Feedback from first week
Japanese students
- Wish for authentic materials (jargon, jokes, idioms, lyrics, movies).
- Wish for 'serious' content i.e. health, lifestyle, society, finance, environment, design.
- Want more input (reading, listening) rather than output.
- Wish to increase fluency.
- Wish less interruptions due to teacher stopping to silence/command attention from inattentive students.
Therefore teacher proposes
- Clearly give aims
- To introduce serious content via project work.
- Ignore inattention (yet will ask disruptive students to leave)
- Address the 5 assessment course requirement.
Functional English
- Is a 9 weeks course concentrating on usage of English in an Engineering context i.e. appropriate communication of ideas, information, cooperation, not formal grammar and vocabulary teaching.
- Sets students up for a year in different culture classroom with different set of values, foci etc. E.g. teacher variation of teaching styles.
- Content rather than form.
- Research and initiate rather than being fed knowhow.
- Also self, colleague, teacher and course evaluation is common in Western culture education system.
- Most teachers require 3 things: orderly conduct, responsive interaction, initiative.
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