福島県教育センター所報ふくしま No.101(H03/1991.11) -006/038page
them.
ex.(Bfore this class)
Welcome to Iizaka
I had been in Iizaka for ten years. My town is
famous to Onsen :hot spring. Many people came to
Iizaka everyday and take the Rotenburo or Iwaburo .
And Iizaka has many hotel and Ryokan . Onsen is
good for the health. Take the Onsen and you will
get better "Ri-u-ma-chi". and "Hi-e-sho-u" and
many of sick . I like my town. I hope that many
people come to Iizaka in the furture.
(After the interview in tthis class)
At the beginning of the 2nd period we taught them why the underlined parts were strange or awkward from the grammatical and communicative points of view.
Ihave lived in Iizaka for ten years. My town is
famous for hot spring. People come to Iizaka everyday
and take a hot spring. They often sing
"Ha-na-u-ta" and they feel happy. Hot spring is
good for the health. Take a hot spring and you will
get over "Ri-u-ma-ti" and "Hi-e-sho-u". I like my town
very much. I hope that many people come to
Iizaka in the future.
6. B-A composition
To develop the students' eagerness to express themselves in English we usually made them add at least one sentence before and after the key sentence.
ex.
Today is August 20th. I'm watching TV. Weather
forecaster says "I will rain tomorrow.
It seems that a typhoon will hit Fukusima tomorrow.
Ican't take a walk with my dog tomorrow. It
seems that he will angry tomorrow.(3) Students' opinions The students' opinions of the lesson are as follows.
・ It is more refreshing than the usual class with an explanation in Japan-ese.
・ We canmastereasilyunderstandable English.
・ We can study English from anaspect which is different from Japanese and get a lot of knowledge about foreign countries.
・ Easiertoconcentratewhen oneteach-er is in the class.
・ When a foreigner is in the class, I become nervous and too shy.
These last two negative comments will be overcome by conducting these kinds of classes more and more.
5 . Summary
According to our pursuit, teamteach-ing in writing is effective. Good results will be realized. However it depends on how we implement teamteaching in the writing lesson. To master grammar points, we think, it will be necessary ,for the students to have many kinds of activities of listening, reading, and speaking, especially when we teach with teamteaching. Needless to say, as we face higher levels of teaching materials we encounter more difficulties with only Grammar-translation method.