Peer Tutoring in Japanese

Prerequisite: Consent of instructor This course is designed to assist tutors in developing the knowledge and skills essential for serving as a peer educator in Japanese. It will give hands-on experience to tutors in both group and individual settings. They will assess their own tutoring skills, provide peer feedback and design language learning activities while integrating the diversity of abilities, interests and learning styles of students. Focusing on the dynamics of communication across cultures, they will also learn how to help students understand the forces underlying the ways that individuals from other cultures express their ideas in their native language, in comparison with students' own native language. Emphasis will be placed on respecting human similarities and differences, recognizing sociocultural influences on individuals' worldviews, and comprehending the diverse factors that establish and maintain cultural norms, including power, privilege, age, class and gender. Offered fall and spring semesters.