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Thursday, September 20, 2012

Instruction about PE (Pronunciation Exercise)


1.       Purpose
  • Give opportunities to practice Japanese pronunciation (focusing on prosody), speaking (naturalness) and listening (prosodic features) outside of class
  • Understand the importance of Japanese prosody (how you sound like)
  • Enhance learner autonomy

2.       Things to do
  • Set Goal and decide activities that you want to do to achieve the goal --> post the statement on your blog
  • Do exercises as you planned
  • Required exercise = 2 recordings (at least one of the two should be Shadowing) and 1 listening (submit them in Blackboard)
  • You can do 2 Shadowing or 1 Shadowing and 1 free-speaking (=talking with someone). For the required recording, you must do self-evaluation(submit them in Blackboard)
  • You can make as many recordings as you want (not just two).
  • You can choose materials that you shadow by yourself (dialogue in textbook, lab exercises, short conversations from “Shadowing” textbook, your favorite anime/drama, songs, etc.)
  • Have an individual consultation with Shibata-sensee to discuss problems and how to solve them
  • Reflect and set goals for the next PE cycle --> post the statement on your blog

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