Title: Covering Culture in the Pre-service Teacher Practicum
Pages: 2-14
Author(s): Chris Carl Hale, David Ryo Shimamoto
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Abstract:
Pre-service teachers attending MA TESOL programs often conduct practicum lessons as part of their degree requirements. Typically, lesson-planning of the practicum is focused on improving teaching skills according to best practices in second language acquisition (SLA). Practica given at the university level (where language-focus learning is supplemented with authentic material) can cause pre-service teachers difficulty as they are generally not experienced with content and language integrated learning (CLIL) or content-based approaches. The study presented here describes one pre-service teacher tasked with delivering a lesson using authentic materials dealing with how the Black Lives Matter (BLM) Movement is interpreted in Japan. The novice teacher needed to design an engaging lesson covering issues related to the topic, such as cultural appropriation, racism and xenophobia. The authors, the master teacher and the novice, each describe how they approached the topic and worked to co-design a lesson that served the intercultural awareness-raising purpose of the unit, while still proving insightful as a practicum experience.
英語教授法を学ぶ大学院修士課程の学生は、教員養成過程の単位習得の一環として、大学において教育実習を行うことが多い。教育実習の授業計画の際に典型的に用いられるのは、第二言語習得における最も優れた授業実践である。大学で行われる教育実習（外国語使用を重点的に行う授業で、補足教材としてオーセンティックな教材を用いる）は、内容言語統合型学習（CLIL）や学習内容に重点をおいた学習法（content-based approach）を行うことの経験が乏しい教育実習生にとって、困難なものとなる。この研究は、1人の教育実習生がBlack Lives Matter (BLM)の社会運動が日本でどのように解釈されているか、授業を行った様子を記述している。この教育実習生は、テーマに関連した事柄、例えば文化盗用や人種差別、外国人恐怖症などを取り扱い、学生の興味関心を引き出す授業を考案する必要がある。筆者ら（指導教員と教育実習生）は各々どのようにテーマを提示したのか述べ、教育実習を意義あるものにするために、異文化に対する意識を高める目的の授業案を共同で作成した。
Please cite this article as follows:
Hale, C.C & Shimamoto, D.R. (2022). Covering Culture in the Pre-service Teacher Practicum. In J. Salazar & G. Benthien (Eds.), ICLE SIG 1st Conference Peer-Reviewed Proceedings. Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT). (pp. 2-14) Retrieved from: https://icle.jalt.org/mod/page/view.php?id=180