初年次学生の国際的視野を育むアクティブラーニング -アメリカ人高校生との交流プログラム実践報告-

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Recently, some of the first-year students seemed not to have enough study experience from their junior high-school years. Therefore, "first-year experience at college" is important in order to support a smooth transition from secondary education to higher education. We designed an "active learning" project to foster a cosmopolitan outlook in our first-year students with our teachers' support and cooperation. We received 36 American high school students escorted by 5 teachers from Bear Creek High School, Colorado, U.S.A. at our college on June 16-17, 2008. We carried out the following activities: (1) Japanese students taught basic Japanese greetings to American students in a small group, (2) Japanese students taught daily conversation to American students in a small group, and vice versa, (3) Japanese students taught Japanese calligraphy and origami paper craft to American students and completed art works by cooperating with each other. According to the post questionnaire answered by our college's first-year students, 73.3% of the students had the positive impression towards the international exchange. However, their positive impression varied with each activity: (1) 33.4% < (2) 62.6% < (3) 71.4% In the future, we need to design activities that will enable both Japanese and American students to communicate more actively and cheerfully.
2009-02-27