Action research by an inexperienced teacher :
How much progress results from simple repetition?
2001 Volume 8 Issue 1 Pages 32-33
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2001 Volume 8 Issue 1 Pages 32-33
From April until September in 2000, classes for Korean and Chinese beginning learners of Japanese used a team-teaching system. Both teachers, however, were inexperienced at class teaching. Each class had 2-hour sessions once a week, and I made videotape recordings of three different classes, 12 sessions each, and analyzed them. Results of the analysis showed that, with experience, the teachers became more successful at guessing from the learners' expressions what they were thinking and whether they understood or not. Also, with experience, the teachers became increasingly skilled at giving appropriate hints and explanations when learners didn't understand.
