Pedagogical Skills

I designed integrated performance assessment (IPA) instrument for novice-mid level university students’ classroom use. The intended purpose of this IPA is to learn public etiquette, specifically train etiquette in the target language culture. After completing this IPA, students will have gained ability to interpret posters of various public transportation rules and can apply their knowledge when they use public transportation system in Japan.

This intercultural activity was designed for novice-low, American university students in their first semester of Japanese language course. The activity, “What’s in your fridge?”, facilitates novice learners’ limited language ability in a sociocultural context through an observation of everyday practice of self and others and participate in purposeful communication to develop multiple perspectives on a given topic.

I created a 5-module Canvas online unit lesson that targets a scenario which adult learners may encounter in a formal social setting, and it aims to teach basic language and pragmatic skills that are essential on those occasions. The course follows the Task Based Language Teaching (TBLT) principles in which tasks are meaning oriented and aim to simulate real life scenarios.