In lieu of the COVID19 which prompted the Marinduque under the Luzon Enhanced Community Quarantine since March 15 until April 15, there would be key changes and modifications. The EdM02: Advanced Foreign Language (Nihongo/Nippongo) class has traditionally required the learners to provide some deliverables in the course of seven meetings. The EdM02 learners are supposed to submit accomplished writing practice sheets based on the first Katakana Table: sound of 50. Then the Nihongo learners are going to produce hard and laminated copies of the 50 Katakana flashcards. Then there’s the cultural mapping forms which the Nippongo learners are going to base their flashcards and their respective reflections.

The reflection is the culmination of their both EdM01 and EdM02 learnings about Hiragana and Katakana along with their Pecha Kucha capsule proposals. The reflections are memorized and recited aloud during the culminating activity during the last meeting. Then finally, the cultural mapping forms along with the reflections in Romanji, Katakana and English is compiled in the form of a proceedings. The Katakana flashcards need not be printed and laminated anymore, softcopy and digital version would suffice. The reflections in Japanese during the culminating activity need not be actual but can take a virtual form such as a Vlog. The EdM02 learners are going to record themselves and post in a common blog for everybody to hear and see.

Despite the health concerns and state of medical emergency, the MSC School of Graduate and

Professional Studies  needs to innovate and go on with the next frontier of higher learning and advanced studies. With the help of alternative modalities, distance learning and online mode, everything is made possible.

Dr. Randi Nobureza

EdM02: Advanced Foreign Language

2^ndsemester 2019-20

MSC School of Graduate and Professional Studies