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Table 2 Explanation of learning activities

From: Effects of using the first principles of instruction in a content and language integrated learning class

 

Content of knowledge

Task

Activity 1

Self-disclosure: A process of passing on information about yourself to someone else, whether people intend to or not. For example, confiding in others about various aspects of oneself, such as one’s attitudes, opinions, interests, work, and personality

Johari Window: proposed by Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham in 1955, this is a technique designed to help people understand their relationship with themselves and others. It can divide the size of one’s self-disclosure

Use the worksheet and discuss with group members to create students’ own Johari window

Activity 2

Stereotype: a set idea about what a particular type of people

Prejudice: a stereotype accompanied by negative feelings, which means the opinion is not based on reason or actual experience

Discrimination: a prejudice further combined with behavior, which means treating a person or particular group of people differently in a worse way

Using the worksheet and discussion with the group members, explore students’ own inherent impressions of the Japanese people and the reasons for such impressions