Summer Institute: AP Japanese Language and Culture

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Summer Institute AP Japanese Language and Culture

• Your leader College Board Consultant
• Hiroko C. Kataoka
• California State University, Long Beach

Most handouts adapted from Kataoka
Tohsaku,1996-2005 and Kataoka 1997-2006.
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Goal of the Institute

• To prepare participants to teach an AP Japanese
  Language and Culture course by writing an AP
  Japanese curriculum, examining sample test
  items, and developing sample activities for the
  course.

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Logistics

• Agenda for the week (Schedule)
• Computer use
• Handouts
• Assignments
• Daily Announcements

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Tentative Schedule
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AP Program
AP Japanese Language and Culture Course and Exam
Overview

• College-level studies at high school
• Developed and administered by the College Board
  since 1955
• 34 courses in 19 subject areas
• AP Courses and AP Exams
• Close to 60 of U.S. high schools and over 90 of
  U.S. colleges and universities participate
• College credit, advanced placement, or both for
  qualifying AP Exam grades

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AP Courses

• Course descriptions developed by a committee of
  college faculty and HS teachers
• Covers the breadth of information, skills, and
  assignment in the corresponding college course
• Usually equivalent to second-year college-level
  course
• Taught by highly qualified high school teachers

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AP Exams

• Administered in May, each year
• Developed by committees of college faculty and AP
  high school teachers
• Free-response section (scored by exam readers)
  and multiple-choice questions (scored by
  computer)
• Modern languages speaking and listening
  components
• On average, 62 of the exams receive a grade
  recommended for college credit, advanced
  placement, or both.

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Benefits of AP Program for Students

• Saving on college tuition
• Higher GPA (HS)
• Early graduation (College)
• Taking more advanced courses(College)
• Double majors (College)

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Benefits of Japanese AP Program

• Raising the quality of Japanese education
• Articulation between high school and college
  programs
• More enrollment in Japanese courses
• Highly motivated, excellent students
• Professional development activities for teachers

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AP Japanese Language and CultureTimeline

• Spring 2003 Board of Trustees resolution
• Fall 2004 AP Japanese Task Force
• Fall 2005 AP Japanese Development Committee
• Fall 2006 First AP Japanese Course
• May 2007 First AP Japanese Exam

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AP Japanese Language and Culture Contents

• Standards-based 5Cs Interpersonal,
  interpretive, and presentational communications
• 4 language skills
• Equivalent to 300-hour college-level instruction
• Target LevelACTFL Proficiency Guidelines
  Intermediate Low to Mid Range
• Authentic task-based questions
• No discrete measurement of grammatical knowledge
• Online test
• Developed by ETS

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Test Takers

• Those who complete an AP Japanese course in high
  school
• Anyone over 14 years old including those who have
  NOT taken an AP Japanese course (e.g., native
  speakers and learners of Japanese as a heritage
  language)

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AP Japanese College Perspectives

• Qualifying AP Scores (3, 4, and 5)
• College credits
• Advanced placement
• College credits and Advanced placement
• Nothing

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Student Grade DistributionsAP Examinations May
2005
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AP Policy

• Different from school to school
• More than 90 US colleges and universities
  participate in AP Program
• Refer to your school catalog, web site, or
  College Board site
• You may be asked to make a decision on AP
  Japanese

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http//apps.collegeboard.com/apcreditpolicy/index.
jsp
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College Boards Equity StatementEquity and
Access

• What do you know about CBs Equity Statement?
• In pairs read take notes on Equity and Access
  in AP Japanese Language and Culture Teachers
  Guide.
• If youre interested and would like to know more
  about it, go to lthttp//apcentral.collegeboard.com
  /article/0,3045,150-157-0-2200,00.htmlgt and read
  articles.
• Discuss what we can do.

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Resources Available for Teachers

• General information about the AP http//www.colle
  geboard.com/student/testing/ap/sub_japaneselang.ht
  ml?japaneselang
• AP World Languages
• http//apcentral.collegeboard.com/
• AP Japanese Language and Culture
• http//apcentral.collegeboard.com/Japanese
• Send an e-mail to APJapanese_at_collegeboard.org.
  Provide your name, school affiliation, mailing
  address, and e-mail address, and ask for
  information.

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Resources Available for Teachers

• Course Description
• Teachers Guide
• AP Central
• Teachers Resource Catalog
• Electronic Discussion Groups
• College Board Store
• Pre-AP world language workshops
• Books and materials (no single text will teach
  the course)

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AP Japanese Language and Culture Professional
Activities

• National Conference (July)
• Workshops (Pre-AP, AP Japanese)
• Weeklong Summer Institutes (AP Japanese)
• AP Central--gt Professional development--gt

http//apps.apcentral.collegeboard.com/EventSearch
Params.jsp
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Other Issues

• Building/District level decisions on taking
  /requiring the exam
• Cost and fee reductions exam dates for 2007
• Special needs students
• Make-up exams
• Security issues
• Test day administration/proctors/equipment/
  language labs
• Grade reports July, September statistical reports
• Grades by phone-July 1

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AP Japanese Language and Culture Course and
ExamSpecifications

• Specifications and format
• Kanji list

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Activity 1Exam Format Which part of the exam
tests each of the following?
Inter-personal Mode Inter-pretive Mode Present-ational Mode
Listening
Speaking
Reading
Writing
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