The journal of Japanese Language Education Methods
Online ISSN : 2423-9909
Print ISSN : 1881-3968
Practice Report on a Classroom Activity with a Focus on Fluency:
A Pairwork Activity Using a List of Questions
Chie IWAKI
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2019 Volume 25 Issue 2 Pages 56-57

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Classroom activities are supposedly designed to help students in developing communicative competence. However, grammatical accuracy is usually focused while the significance of fluency in spoken Japanese has often been ignored. Thus, the author adopted the approach of maximizing enjoyable conversation practice. The students practiced the activity as pair work. A list of questions was provided, which facilitated interaction between students and fostered better understanding of each other. During the activity, the students with the same mother tongue also took an active role in the conversation and showed the increased interest in the language. As a result, all the students were actively engaged.
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