COETAIL Course 5 O'Neill
This document summarizes a project-based learning course involving translation work to support tsunami survivors in Rikuzentakata, Japan. The goals of the course were for students to develop technology skills, collaborate at a distance, improve their language skills through translation work, and learn about the local community and experiences of survivors. Student feedback indicated they enjoyed having flexibility to work independently with technology tools like Google Drive, appreciated collaborating with peers to provide feedback on work, and found translating and ensuring accurate meaning transfer between languages to be challenging skills. The document includes examples of student reflections on their experiences and a sample translation with commentary.
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- 1. Tohoku Outreach Project-Based Learning, Goals and Outcomes COETAIL Course 5 Ted O’Neill - 26 APR 14 @gotanda gotanda@gmail COETAIL:gotanda
- 2. Situation • Limited time and technology in school • Joined ongoing JALT Learner Development SIG outreach in Rikuzentakata • Translation • Motivated learners
- 6. Learners
- 7. Tech Demonstrate independent mastery of technology tools. Teach peers how to use these tools/assist them in reaching mastery. Collaboration Work well at a distance Peer reviewing and editing Support students from other classes and departments Support the instructor Language Work on language strategies for translation. Understand content, voice, genre issues in translation. Culture Learn about the community of Rikuzentakata and the experience of tsunami survivors.
- 9. Outcomes - Technology A-san: I liked it because I can choose the time to do work. I could do it even in the early morning, late at night, anytime my concentration was good condition! O-san:“It was as if I wasdoing my homework(joking). Since I have neverused the system, I hadmechanical problems at first,but friends told me how todo it and I gradually got usedto it.” K-san: I think Google Drive is good and powerful tool for school especially for writing, because many people can work at the same time in same files.
- 10. Outcomes - Collaboration K-san: ... many people can work at the same time in same files.We can easily help each other and also we can read others’.
- 11. Outcomes - Language K-san:Writing should be well organized.Translating should not change the meaning. Both are difficult. O-san:The little difference ofnuance between thelanguages were difficult. Itwas quiet challenging when Icouldn’t easily (and“directly”) translate, but Ienjoyed it! 朝になり唯一の食べ物だったものが津波で流されてきたさんまで、僕はそんな ことを気にせず、どんどん食べていきました。 In the morning, all we had to eat was the sanma left behind by the disaster and I ate a lot of them. I did not care the fact that I was eating sanma from the tsunami.
- 12. Mis-understanding 朝になり唯一の食べ物だっ たものが津波で流されてき たさんまで、僕はそんなこ とを気にせず、どんどん食 べていきました。 The next morning, while the only food was Pacific saury which was conveyed by the tsunami, I ate a lot with no thought for the fact that the fish was really scarce.