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Japanology
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 Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 2:33 pm Post subject: Questionnaire on Japanese EFL Classroom Management |
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OP deleted due to derailment and self-pleasing cleverness.
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Glenski
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| Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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EDITED at Japanology's request, and at his editing of the original post, which now contains this disclaimer which I do not understand:
Please do not respond personally to the OP about the quality of the questions. Yes, the questions are broad and could be modified - but they exist as they are for a purpose.
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timothypfox
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| Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 11:33 pm Post subject: |
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| While your research looks interesting, I agree with Glenski. |
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Japanology
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| Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 1:00 am Post subject: |
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Please PM me if you'd like more background or clarification
Thank you
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Theory
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| Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 4:36 am Post subject: |
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| Japanology wrote: |
Please respond to any questions you wish - that sparks your interest.
Please interpret the questions any way you like. |
Excatly what kind of 'valuable research' are you doing? To me it feels like you're trying to get other people to answer your homework questions for you. Otherwise asking a bunch of random strangers on the internet to answer any number of questions in any way they want to interpret them seems rather fruitless. |
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Japanology
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| Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 6:21 am Post subject: |
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Please PM me if you'd like more background or clarification
Thank you
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Cool Teacher
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| Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 10:10 am Post subject: |
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Dleted by request from the OP! 
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Cool Teacher
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| Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 10:31 am Post subject: Re: Questionnaire on Japanese EFL Classroom Management |
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OK I have some time to let's try... 
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Hello Japan Forum.
I'm doing some valuable research on Japanese EFL Classroom Management. If it sparks your interest - could you kindly take some time and answer some questions.
�How many years have you been teaching Japanese Students?
12 years
�What effects do you think teacher care has on classroom management for / with Japanese students?
Too vague/not sure
�What effects do you think teacher rapport has on classroom management for / with Japanese students?
As above
�What effects does Student English ability have on English language program classroom management for A)teachers and B) students?
As above
�What effects does Japanese language ability have on English language program classroom management for A) teachers and B) students?
As above
�Why is there a difference in classroom management with Japanese EFL students between the Non-Japanese English teachers and the Japanese English teachers?
Is there a difference? Don't know but maybe most Japanse teachers have studied education in Japan and most non-native English teachers are not real teaachers and haven't got nay certificates. The japanse teachers are better then.
�Why do you think the students behave differently between their Non-Japanese English teachers and their Japanese English teachers?
As above
�In what ways do you think the student�s behavior choices in the Non-Japanese English program and in the Japanese English program are related to both the A)teacher�s and B)student�s - cultural background?
As above
�What do you think are the student�s perceptions of the Non-Japanese English language teachers?
"students'"
Too various. In my school my studetns want me to teach them but they don't like the other native English speaker much and make fin of him. Maybe they do it to me and I don't notice. Also the students I teach also badmouth some of the Japanese teachers. Today one of them said to me "I hate another teacher who always looks down on me. He is a jiji!" (That means an old man and I think it is funny that the student complains that the Japanese teacher looks down on her and at the same time she hates his as an old man! Sometimes you get hippocrates!!
�What do you think are the student�s perceptions of the Japanese English language teachers?
As above
�What effects do you think having a Non-Japanese English teacher has on Japanese student motivation?
Sometimes they are very excited by "exotic" foreigners!
�What effects do you think having a Japanese English teacher has on Japanese student motivation?
It varies on the teacher I think.
�How can the Non-Japanese English teachers replicate the success of the classroom management models of the Japanese English teachers?
I think this is assuming that the non-Japnese are more successful. At what?
�What do you think are the differences between Western and Japanese classroom management models?
Variosu
�What do you think is important for the Non-Japanese English language teachers to know in order to understand the success of the Japanese classroom management models?
As above. And is the Japanese language classromm successful?
�What changes would you like to see that would help you with your classroom management?
If my students listen more but I don't know if that is what you mean? 
�What ways can the Non-Japanese English teachers change to accommodate a more culturally responsive classroom management model?
Please pick and choose if you'd like and read into the questions any way you wish. If you would like to communicate with the OP - please PM me.
Thank you for your time and effort.
Sincerely and Respectfully,
Japanology |
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Japanology
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| Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 9:08 am Post subject: |
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| Thank you cool teacher! |
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G Cthulhu
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| Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 4:17 pm Post subject: Re: Questionnaire on Japanese EFL Classroom Management |
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| Japanology wrote: |
I'm doing some valuable research on Japanese EFL Classroom Management.
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Valuable to whom?
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If it sparks your interest - could you kindly take some time and answer some questions.
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"Would", not "could". We all could, but that's not the question.
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�What effects do you think teacher care has on classroom management for / with Japanese students?
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Which teacher? Care of whom, & by whom? The teacher? The students? The question works in at least four mutually exclusive ways - assuming you're trying to be exact, which would be the point of "valuable research."
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�What effects do you think teacher rapport has on classroom management for / with Japanese students?
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Again, with or among whom? Students? Among teachers? All of them? None of them?
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�What effects does Student English ability have on English language program classroom management for A)teachers and B) students?
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The effects are affected by many factors.
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�Why is there a difference in classroom management with Japanese EFL students between the Non-Japanese English teachers and the Japanese English teachers?
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Who are these non-Japanese teachers you keep talking about? There are 7-8000 EFL teaching assistants in Japan, but fewer than 50 licensed non-Japanese english language teachers. "ALT's" are not teachers.
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�Why do you think the students behave differently between their Non-Japanese English teachers and their Japanese English teachers?
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Do they? Tell us more. Or, indeed, anything.
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�In what ways do you think the student�s behavior choices in the Non-Japanese English program and in the Japanese English program are related to both the A)teacher�s and B)student�s - cultural background?
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There are two programmes? MEXT says there's only one.
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�What do you think are the student�s perceptions of the Non-Japanese English language teachers?
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Which of the 47 million students opinions would you prefer us to start with?
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�What do you think are the student�s perceptions of the Japanese English language teachers?
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�How can the Non-Japanese English teachers replicate the success of the classroom management models of the Japanese English teachers?
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Have you ever been in a Japanese classroom? 
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�What do you think are the differences between Western and Japanese classroom management models?
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I think that is an outstanding question. It's like asking what is the difference between the grains of sand on one beach vs. another beach. What are these "models" of which you speak, white man?
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�What ways can the Non-Japanese English teachers change to accommodate a more culturally responsive classroom management model?
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"In what ways..." At least make it grammatical. Personally, I find the entire question as bordering on offensive: it ignores the entire reason MEXT has non-Japanese assistants in the classroom. It's cultural relativism gone mad, and to the likely detriment of the students and co-workers.
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Please pick and choose if you'd like and read into the questions any way you wish.
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I would, but the grammar is so bad I'm honestly not sure what you're rabbiting on about half the time. The first part of research is to frame your questions well. (Unless, of course, this is all just a cunning plan to actually research the English capabilities of ALT's. In which case you're simply guilty of a low grade research ethics violation.)
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Please do not respond personally to the OP about the quality of the questions. Yes, the questions are broad and could be modified - but they exist as they are for a purpose.
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ibid And also why I'm posting this on the public forum rather than privately: because you asked us to.
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I kindly ask that if you would like to educate the OP on this - to kindly PM instead of a public education on this thread.
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Make up your mind. First you say don't PM and then you say do PM. Which is it?
hugs,
GC |
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OneJoelFifty
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 12:31 am Post subject: |
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| Wow, you guys are real ballbreakers. If you'd put as much time into just answering a couple of the questions as you put into whining about them it might have been better. |
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aynnej
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 1:33 am Post subject: |
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| Japanology, there are better and worse ways to design a survey to avoid bias and fatigue, encourage a higher response rate, etc. Some universities have their graduate students who will be involved in research take a course on survey methodology. But for starters, you might want to check out http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/research/survey/index.cfm. |
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Cool Teacher
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 9:21 am Post subject: |
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| Japanology wrote: |
| Thank you cool teacher! |
Your welcome! |
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Cool Teacher
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| OneJoelFifty wrote: |
| Wow, you guys are real ballbreakers. If you'd put as much time into just answering a couple of the questions as you put into whining about them it might have been better. |
I did I did! Now it's you're turn! |
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G Cthulhu
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 10:00 pm Post subject: |
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| OneJoelFifty wrote: |
| Wow, you guys are real ballbreakers. If you'd put as much time into just answering a couple of the questions as you put into whining about them it might have been better. |
Academics is a pretty much contact sport where I come from.
Moreover, as I just replied to Japanology in PM (where they went trolling for past posts to scold me over!), there was content in there that they missed that was actually designed to be helpful. I suspect she/he won't be happy that I pointed out the emotion they ascribed was all in their own head and not in the words, but as I said in the PM, I can't help them on that front.
More to the point: why, on a small, random web board with anon posting, that is populated by a very small minority of EFL people as far as Japan is concerned, would much credit be given to helping an anonymous, badly written "survey" that has no publicly stated goals, no known oversight, or known external moderation? If someone wants to do a random straw poll then great. Let's have at it! Can be entertaining! But if they want to do "research" that has actual value then there are standards that should be followed & met. |
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