Designing Lessons with Extra-Curricular Activities to Teach Local Culture and Industries and its Challenges

Abstract

This paper reports the challenges in designing lessons for intermediate and advanced students of Japanese to teach them about local culture and industries and their implementations. Based on the results of a survey on the lessons conducted in the first year, improvements such as revising the theme and learning form and incorporating extra-curricular activities were made in the second year. This paper describes the differences in the lessons used in the two implementations, points to consider when teaching lessons including extra-curricular activities, methods for providing materials to the students by considering the differences in their proficiency levels, learning evaluation, survey results, and suggestions for future improvements.