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The “Active Learning” Lesson Using Japanese Student Newspapers

  • Journal of Japanese Culture
  • 2017, (74), pp.155-172
  • DOI : 10.21481/jbunka..74.201708.155
  • Publisher : The Japanese Culture Association Of Korea (Jcak)
  • Research Area : Humanities > Japanese Language and Literature
  • Received : June 2, 2017
  • Accepted : August 4, 2017
  • Published : August 31, 2017

Cho, Young-Hee 1

1금강대학교

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ABSTRACT

As the socioeconomic environment is rapidly changing, the paradigm of university education cannot help but also change. This is especially true, as the unemployment of young people is becoming a serious social issue. At the same time the employment rate is becoming the standard of university evaluation, as a result university education should be changing to cultivate vocational abilities necessary to survive in the future. Indeed, in the future era represented as the Forth Industrial Revolution, rather than the simple accumulation of knowledge, self-directed learning ability and communication skills will be more important. Considering such changes of the time, this paper explored the idea of the “active learning” lessons which students actively participate in and then reported the results. It also introduced the method of using Japanese student newspapers as teaching material. In the lessons, the preliminary learning based on LMS motivated students to study on their own. In the main lesson, after completing the preliminary learning of vocabulary and current terms, the contents of LMS preliminary learning were shared, and then it was checked to see if the contents of the text were accurately understood through questions and discussions. After thr lessons, the students were asked to paraphrase the text or write on essay to see if the contents of the text were accurately understood. The results showed that, thanks to the introduction of “active learning”, many parts of the lessons were student-directed, which eventually led to the improvement of students’ self-directed learning ability and communication skills with others.

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