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Sound File Project
This task-based, computer assisted language learning assessment sees students record and upload weekly audio files responding to questions or prompts from course coordinators. This is a practical means of extending spoken language learning beyond contact hours in a way that provides students with personalised feedback and opportunities for rapport building.
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Visual Analysis
Students complete a short (800 word) analysis of a visual text of relevance to their discipline, including photographs or artworks. Rather than simply describing the image or artwork, students are expected to critically engage with the visual stimuli and discuss it using themes and concepts covered throughout the course.
Team or Group based
Video Presentation
In small groups students create a short YouTube video production communicating an otherwise complex or scholarly argument (developed out of an essay assessment item) in a form appropriate to an open audience. Ideally scaffolded with reflexive assessment items, this technique emphasises key workplace skills in production, messaging and interpersonal communication.
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Unrehearsed Oral Presentation
This practical task see students complete an oral performance during dedicated class time in response to some form of in-situ stimuli, such as a live presentation or audio-visual material. In JAPN7200, students attend weekly live interpreting forums and must orally interpret (from English to Japanese) speeches delivered by guest speakers.
Team or Group based
Student Panel Discussion
Underscored by an immersive pedagogy focusing on 'co-generative dialogues' - collaborative discussions cultivated between students and instructors as the source of learning- this task positions students as co-teachers within a conversational Q&A style panel discussion of weekly readings. Students additionally submit a critical summary of weekly readings to corroborate marks.
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Short Article (The Conversation)
Following a larger essay assessment, students construct a 1000 word article on the same topic of their major assessment piece) intended for publication on the online platform The Conversation. This exercise introduces students to the challenge of writing for a specific audience, and communicating complex concepts with clarity and concision.
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Reflective Presentation
Akin to an oral exam, but with a pedagogical emphasis on reflexivity and relational education, this assessment sees students respond to a question or prompt via a reflexive presentation and a dialogue with course staff where they speak to salient elements of their learning in relation to course themes.
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Reflective Workbook
This workbook technique uses progressive learning pedagogies to inform weekly activities that dynamically build on course content. Through formative and summative tasks, students complete one activity per week for the course duration. Feedback is regularly provided for formative tasks to enhance engagement and promote learning outcomes for higher-level summative tasks.
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Public Showcase Review
Students visit a contemporary showcase relevant to their discipline (e.g. an art or museum exhibition, public speech, music or theatre production, etc.) and write a critical review in response. The appraisal should respond to key disciplinary issues introduced throughout the course), and mimic the tone of a specific industry publication.
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Primary Research Portfolio and Report
Designed to introduce students to the practical and methodological aspects of undertaking primary research within a disciplinary context, this assessment sees students work with research participants to plan and conduct qualitative interviews to produce portfolio of fieldwork documents and a final research report.