Designing and Implementing Language Learning
Our Goals
We all have the ability to learn language. The Language Learning Workshop is a place where we create “language learning” by discussing with our peers, thinking about ways to utilize that ability, trying it out, feeling it, reflecting on it, and trying it again. Language cannot be acquired unless it is used. Therefore, in order to acquire language, it is important to use it. In addition to the situations and topics in which we use language, the people and peers who listen and read to us are also very important. We believe that the starting point for language learning is the desire to get to know the other person, to connect with them, and to have them know more about us.
The “Language Learning Project” involves using language with excitement, but steadily, while confirming your past path and future path, as well as your own interests and connections with others. “Language Learning Program Development” involves planning, implementing, reflecting on, presenting, and sharing opportunities to learn language. “Language Learning Research” clarifies what language is, what it means to learn language, what is needed to acquire language, and what people can understand, feel, and grow through language learning. Finally, we offer “Language Learning Designer Training” to create language learning, and “Language Learning Engineer Training” to realize language learning. Through these activities, we will create language learning and its foundations.
What Students Will Acquire
- The Experience of Actually Using English as a Means of Communication: Actual experience communicating in a foreign language through exchanging information and opinions with foreigners who do not speak Japanese.
- Attitudes Necessary for Communication: To be understood, being “easy to understand” is more important than being “good.” The attitude of striving to speak clearly is acquired through experience.
- The Ability to Structure a Story: The ability to develop a logical story and give an orderly explanation is acquired through activities to find and communicate what one wants to communicate, and through preparation for that.
- The Ability to Get People to Listen and the Ability to Create Useful Materials: The ability to speak and create materials in a way that gets people to listen is acquired through efforts to pique their interest.
- The Ability to Listen and Draw Out: Realizing the importance of questioning skills in order to find out what one wants to hear, and using that knowledge to develop the ability to draw out what the other person wants to say.