A Teacher Educator’s Reflection on Japanese Language Teaching Training:

To Promote Japanese Language Teacher Educators' Growth

Abstract

The author supervised Japanese language teaching training for undergraduate students in the Education department. The students conducted online Japanese language lessons for technical intern trainees. As one student taught the same lesson to different learners, it was aimed that the students could improve their lesson plans. However, there is little evidence that the students improved their “self-educating ability” and the following problem remained: 1) insufficient control of vocabulary, 2) inability to apply the lesson plans for practical use. The results indicated that it was necessary to incorporate class activities into pre-training lessons to improve students’ “self-educating ability” and activities to give students opportunities to think how they can improve “self-educating ability.”