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TAKAKO AIKAWA: So we had
two different sessions.

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One is grammar session, and
the other one is drill session.

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Grammar session is to teach or
introduce new grammar items,

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and usually, we do
this grammar session,

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we are using English, especially
for beginners classes.

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The drill session is to practice
what students have learned

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in grammar session,
so lots of drills

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and interactive activities
in class, and drills sessions

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are entirely in Japanese, even
from day two of the first year.

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And in terms of
proportion, we usually

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spend one day for
grammar session

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and four to five days for
drill sessions per each lesson.

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So for grammar
session, the students

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are supposed to read grammar
notes of the textbook, so

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each lesson, we have grammar
notes on the textbook.

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And at the same
time, each lesson

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introduces 40 to 50
new vocabularies,

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so students are supposed to
learn those new vocabularies as

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well.

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For drill sessions,
we have a lot

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of online interactive
exercises, so students

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are supposed to go
to this online site

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and then do a lot of practice.

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So conducting drills
sessions entirely in Japanese

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it's quite challenging
for us, but I

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believe that language needs
to be learned together

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with context.

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So as a language
teacher, and then

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I believe that other
colleagues do the same thing,

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too, we bring a
lot of visual aids.

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so that the classroom becomes
more like a real context,

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and then we try to create
a so-called immersive

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environment in
class, and that way

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we can conduct
interactive drills.