□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□’s culture□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□ □204WS: 散歩することです。 早稲田日本語教育実践研究 第5号／2017／199―260 Japanese Culture, Japanese Government and Policy, among others which are all taught in English. The chance to interact with Japanese native speakers is very limited, because we do not have Japanese native speaker teacher in our university. According to survey results, the opportunity to interact with Waseda students (WS) in a relax atmosphere, makes the learning more fun and motivational. More fun, because my students tend to learn things in a natural way and less intimidating. It is motivational because it made them feel fulfilled that what they are learning inside the class even with the limited vocabulary or expressions they know, they can convey their message and carry on a very interactive meaningful communication with Waseda Students (WS). They are not afraid to commit mistakes and eager strive harder to sustain the conversation. In between class activities, I engaged students with different activities such as interviews, role plays, and through these activities, they also learned the culture. The following are examples on how learning the language and culture occur at the same time. (1) DS: 趣味は何ですか。 My students understand the meaning of the word 散歩、but they cannot understand, why it can be a hobby. They thought there is another meaning of 散歩, Because none of my students would take strolling or walking around as a hobby. Philippine weather is hot and air pollution especially in our university's area is terrible. On the other hand, Waseda students also discover Philippine way of living or culture, for example, in one lesson where we just finished discussing the potential form, we had a class activity, where I assigned WS to a particular job like, driver, teacher, security guard, waitress, ninja, etc. On the other hand, I asked my students to make sentences, looking for these people using the potential forms, like うんてんができますか、速く走れますか、文法がおしえられますか。。。But with the following situation: (2) DS: 立ちながら、寝られますか。(寝ることができますか) WS cannot understand the sentence and thought that there’s a mistake in the vocabulary. My students have to explain and defend their answer, by showing a
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