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Flow!

Page history last edited by Conor 6 years ago

I experience a great deal of flow when studying Japanese. This was especially true in my first year of college when I first began studying, and also this year, when I was studying in preparation to take the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (which I passed. Yay!) Japanese requires a lot of visual memorization early on, since the writing system is unique to the language. This meant that my first week of Japanese required me to memorize an entire set (46 in all) of characters in order to be able to continue the class. I sat in the grass outside the building at my campus, and started working away at writing the characters over and over again in order to memorize them. As I learned more and became able to write words and form sentences, it became more and more exciting.

 

I think there were two main factors at play here. First, I knew that I really wanted to learn the language. I had an intrinsic motivation that stemmed from a deep respect of bilingual people. In other words, it felt very important to me that I learned this. This allowed me to continue with a lot of memorization and repetition that would surely bore other people. the second is that it provided sufficient challenge within an allotted time limit. There was a test of the 46 characters at the end of the week, so I had a goal to reach and an amount of time to do it. Similarly, I only had several months leading up to taking the JLPT test to review grammatical structures and the Chinese characters that Japanese also uses in their written language. 

 

References:

Ferlazzo, L. (2013, March 26). Response: "Flow" In The Classroom. Retrieved March 03, 2018, from http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/classroom_qa_with_larry_ferlazzo/2013/03/response_flow_in_the_classroom.html

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