Chapter 2: Jared’s Story. Rainstorm by Jared Denman
Abstract
In Chapter 2, Jared talks about his ‘learning years’ during which he was constantly changing what he did to learn. His persistence in finding ways to meet his changing needs as a learner was crucial to gaining competence in Japanese. The theme of motivation is continued in Sensei’s Tips. Motivation is the key to sustaining learning until you reach a satisfying level of proficiency. Here, the pillars of motivation – reasons, effort and persistence – are discussed.
About the author
As a teenager Jared Denman became interested in Japan through video games and anime, but Japanese was not taught at his high school. He started studying it at university in 2001, but after a couple of years of unsatisfactory progress he left home for the very first time as an exchange student to Japan. After that he deferred my undergraduate studies to work as an English teacher in Tokyo. He continued on to postgraduate study and graduated in 2014 with a PhD in Japanese Studies. He is now a lecturer at the Centre for Arts and Sciences of Fukui Prefectural University.
Citation
Denman, J. (2017). Jared's story. Rainstorm. In B. Kennett & Y. Nagata (Eds.), Learning Japanese: Voices of experience (pp. 12-22). Candlin & Mynard. https://doi.org/10.47908/6/2
In Chapter 2, Jared talks about his ‘learning years’ during which he was constantly changing what he did to learn. His persistence in finding ways to meet his changing needs as a learner was crucial to gaining competence in Japanese. The theme of motivation is continued in Sensei’s Tips. Motivation is the key to sustaining learning until you reach a satisfying level of proficiency. Here, the pillars of motivation – reasons, effort and persistence – are discussed.
About the author
As a teenager Jared Denman became interested in Japan through video games and anime, but Japanese was not taught at his high school. He started studying it at university in 2001, but after a couple of years of unsatisfactory progress he left home for the very first time as an exchange student to Japan. After that he deferred my undergraduate studies to work as an English teacher in Tokyo. He continued on to postgraduate study and graduated in 2014 with a PhD in Japanese Studies. He is now a lecturer at the Centre for Arts and Sciences of Fukui Prefectural University.
Citation
Denman, J. (2017). Jared's story. Rainstorm. In B. Kennett & Y. Nagata (Eds.), Learning Japanese: Voices of experience (pp. 12-22). Candlin & Mynard. https://doi.org/10.47908/6/2
Information About the Book
Title: Learning Japanese: Voices of experience
Editors: Belinda Kennett and Yuriko Nagata
Publication date: July, 2017
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Title: Learning Japanese: Voices of experience
Editors: Belinda Kennett and Yuriko Nagata
Publication date: July, 2017
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