Mass Individual Teaching
The following example is a part of Step 8 IN THE GARDEN in my guide as per Terada Method to The Basic Teacher by L.W. Lockhart. If conversations from Steps in my guide to The Basic Teacher are copied and pasted to Clipboard of ReadPlease, each of Americans of ReadPlease has a talk of the conversations to each of 10 to 50 learners in turn.
This teaching has good points in addition to those of Terada method as listed below. It is mass individual teaching giving a solution to a problem that present mass language education goes without making full use of a mass quality of learners.
- Mass but still individual teaching makes it possible to do the teaching in close touch with each of many learners by getting out of unequal touch with learners, which present mass language teaching is giving.
- While each learner is answering each question the other learners automatically do the practice of hearing many times so that they will get a trick to some extent of what they have heard.
- But ReadPlease American speakers never get tired at the end of many hours' teaching.
- Charged ReadPlease American speakers give natural voice.
- This teaching goes exactly because it is programmed in a computer.
Example
- Number 1 . Our garden is at the back of the house.
Where is it ?
It is at the back of the house.
Number 2 . At the front we have a green plant in a pot.
What do we have ?
You have a green plant in a pot.
Where do we have it ?
You have it at the front.
Number 3 . Near to the house are beds of flowers.
Where are they ?
They are near to the house.
Number 4 . All gardens in England have flowers.
What have flowers ?
All gardens in England have flowers.
Number 5 . Friends who have gardens give plants to us.
What do they have ?
They have gardens.
What do they give ?
They give plants.
Who do they give them to ?
They give them to you.
What friends do it ?
Friends who have gardens do it.
Number 6 .When we take plants out of the beds we give them to our friends.
What do we take ?
You take plants.
What do we take them out of ?
You take them out of the beds.
Who do we give them to ?
You give them to your friends.
When do we do it ?
You do it when you take them out of the beds.
Number 7 .The bright flowers in our garden are beautiful.
What are beautiful ?
The bright flowers in your garden are beautiful
The Numbers in the above conversation are those in Lists of Learners' Seat Nos. for 10 or 15 or 5 learners which are given below. Each learner is called in turn of the numbers which are read in the direction of columns in the List and these numbers are put in the conversation as seen in the above example.
The method of ReadPlease operation including the way of selecting data, copying them, and pasting them are all the same as given in the writing titled "Robot Reader and Questioner for Self-Learning of Language." But charged ReadPlease Natural Voice has to be used in this mass individual teaching. After letting ReadPlease give the voice of each group of a statement and question or questions, the ReadPlease operator waits for each learner to give each answer, which the operator has been letting go out of sight in Clipboard. If each learner is unable to give a correct answer. The operator lets each answer come into sight and lets the learner say the answer. Or he gives him a hint to the answer. The operator is a teacher, or a volunteer learner, who may not give a hint to an answer.
In a group of 10 learners each learner is able to hear the 5 different conversations 9 times before or after, or before and after his turn comes until all the 10 learners get 10 times through the practice of the conversation of the 5 different statements. The 9 times hearing of the 5 different conversations gives each learner a chance of having them by heart. This is clear from seeing List of Learners' Seat Nos. for 10 learners. This is a typical benefit among good points of this teaching as above mentioned in No.2. In the same way, the teaching done to a group of 15 and 5 learners gives each learner respectively the 14 and 4 times hearings for a chance though which to have a memory of the 5 different conversations. On the other hand, 10, 15, and 5 times all the conversations have to be pasted to Clipboard for a group of respectively 10, 15, and 5 learners
Lists of Learners' Seat Nos. for 10, 15, and 5 learners are given below. One List of Learners' Seat Nos. given below is for every 5 statements in each lesson of a text. So if there are, for example, 17 statements in a lesson, three Lists of full lines and one List of 2 lines are needed. So four different Lists, each of which has respectively 1,2, 3, and 4 lines, are given below for each group of 10, 15, and 5 learners. The memory by hearing is a natural process of getting a language to become one's own.
List of Learners' Seat Nos. for 10 Learners
| 1 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 10 | |
| 2 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 1 | |
| 3 | 8 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 2 | |
| 4 | 9 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 3 | |
| 5 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 4 | |
| 1 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 10 | |
| 2 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 3 | |
| 3 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 1 | |
| 4 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 9 | 2 | |
| 1 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 8 | |
| 2 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 9 | |
| 3 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 10 | |
| 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 10 | |
| 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 1 | |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
List of Learners' Seat Nos. for 15 Learners
| 1 | 6 | 11 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 3 | 8 | 13 | 4 | 9 | 14 | 5 | 10 | 15 | ||
| 2 | 7 | 12 | 3 | 8 | 13 | 4 | 9 | 14 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 6 | 11 | 1 | ||
| 3 | 8 | 13 | 4 | 9 | 14 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 2 | ||
| 4 | 9 | 14 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 2 | 8 | 13 | 3 | ||
| 5 | 10 | 15 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 2 | 8 | 13 | 3 | 9 | 14 | 4 | ||
| 1 | 5 | 9 | 13 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 14 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 15 | 4 | 8 | 12 | ||
| 2 | 6 | 10 | 14 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 15 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 13 | ||
| 3 | 7 | 11 | 15 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 13 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 14 | ||
| 4 | 8 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 13 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 14 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 15 | ||
| 1 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 13 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 15 | ||
| 2 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 15 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 13 | 1 | ||
| 3 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 15 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 13 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 2 | ||
| 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 15 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 14 | ||
| 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 14 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 15 | ||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | ||
List of Learners' Seat Nos. for 5 Learners
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 |
| 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
| 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 |
| 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 3 |
| 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 |
| 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 4 |
| 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
The way of giving mass individual teaching is as mentioned below.
An English lesson of two hours starts once every week after all the lessons other than English are over. This is because to learn English the learners in the one class room have to be distributed between their own room and other empty class rooms. The ditribution is made in combination of a group of 15, 10, or 5 learners.
If there are four classes for each school year there are four class rooms. Then if each class has 50 learners the distribution of these 50 learners into four class rooms is able to be made by putting each 10 learners in each two rooms and each 15 learners in each two other rooms.
When the number of learners in one class room is 50, 45, 40, 35, and 30 respectively and there are 4 and 6 classes or class rooms, the distribution of learners is able to be made into each class room as listed below. The number of using each class room must be equally distributed over each of the learners.
| No. of Learners in one class | 4 classes for each school year | 6 classes for each school year |
|---|---|---|
| 50 | 10+10+15+15 | 10+10+10+10 + 5 + 5 |
| 45 | 10+10+10+15 | 10+10+10 + 5 + 5 + 5 |
| 40 | 10+10+10+10 | 10+10 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 |
| 35 | 10+10+10 + 5 | 10 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 |
| 30 | 10+10 + 5 + 5 | 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 |
If there are absent learners?it will do if the absent learners are given Seat Numbers started with the last seat number and the present learners only hear ReadPlease give voices for absent learners' Seat Numbers. This gives the present learners the hearing practice without needing any change to make in what has been pasted to Clipboard of ReadPlease.
Though there is a limit to the number of learners, the best teaching, however, is still that which each learner gets when a teacher makes use of List of Learners' Seat Numbers with a look only at few words at the head of each statement in the List. It is because the air of a class room with learners full of serious attention, which is caused by Terada Method, gets learners moved in learning impulses. This teaching is as given in the writing titled "List of Learners' Seat Numbers" and it is more than mass individual teaching by a computer program.
End
Saburo Terada
Saitama Prefecture
Thursday, December 12, 2004
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