Lessons

Class Composition by Ability

Level check test at school entry to decide your class.
Students’ language level will be improved by the level check test every 3 months!! Learning in accordance with each student’s ability efficiently makes their Japanese proficiency gets better!
Classes are run under a homeroom system to give meticulous instructions. In addition, they can feel free to consult their homeroom teachers not only Japanese but also anything, no matter how trifle it is. It is possible to start from the higher level class and go on to university earlier if you learned Japanese hard in your home country and have attained high Japanese proficiency.

Materials used in Japanese lessons (examples)

Besides, many original educational materials are used.

In Japanese Course of Iwatani College, various events are incorporated into our lessons to learn Japanese. Students work on surveys, presentations, communicating with Japanese, making posters and so on, and using Japanese they have learned.

For activities, events and study tours see the「Annual Events / Exchange Meetings」.
Besides, various practical lessons are incorporated into our lessons.
Games (a interclass time race of reading kanji and a game using primary sentence patterns)
Shadowing / Discussion / Debate / Reading Newspaper Articles
Songs such as ‘Toire no kami-sama’, ‘Hitomi wo tojite’, ‘Sakura’ and so on
Lessons using a movie ‘Sekai no chushin de ai wo sakebu’ (Socrates in Love) / a textbook ‘Manga de manabu nihongo’ (Living Japanese through Comics)
Exchange Lessons with Iwatani High School and Futaba High School
Presentation and making posters (Presentation of research about news, commodity prices etc. and school / street interviews)
Speech (One-minute speech, Three-minute speech, Class Speech Competition) Presentation
Culture Experience (Seasonal traditions：Star Festival, Bean-Throwing Festival, New Year etc.)

Timetable

Japanese Course introduces a double system with morning classes and afternoon classes. Your class will be decided by the class composition after entering the school. Both morning and afternoon classes have 4 lessons a day. (1 lesson is 45 minutes.)

Morning Class： 9:00 ~ 12:30
Afternoon Class： 13:00 ~ 16:30