Students teaching students? Peer teaching in the EFL classroom in Japan

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Writer(s): 
Kim Bradford-Watts, Kyoto Women’s University

Peer teaching is enjoying increasing popularity in both formal and informal educational contexts. This paper reports on a one semester program in which groups of learners assume responsibility for teaching a unit of the textbook in EFL classes at a tertiary education institution in Japan. In this program, groups of learners teach course content to their peers.

「ピア・ティーチング」が学校内外の教育分野においてますますポピュラーになりつつある。本論では、日本の大学で、学生の各グループがそれぞれ教科書の担当部分を他のグループに教える責任を負う半期プログラムについて論述する。

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