Kyōshin Learning Method

Our Kyōshin (共進) Learning Method features Japanese lessons with effectively-matched students learning in a paired arrangement specifically to enhance and accelerate each other’s progress.

The criteria we use for matching students together is that they are of similar Japanese level, and are also compatible study partners as far as their personalities and study habits go. We specifically select our students such that each will benefit from the qualities of their study partner to learn faster and more effectively.

This arrangement differs from traditional group study lessons in that Kyōshin Learning Method lessons still adhere to our Complete Immersion Teaching System. They include the use of additional native Japanese-speaking tutors so that each student is given one-on-one attention at all times.

Our Kyōshin Learning Method lessons offer students several important benefits that allow them to learn more quickly and effectively compared to traditional one-on-one lessons:

• Students benefit from sharing each other’s work, ideas and perspectives. This allows students to broaden their experience, which helps to improve their speaking and writing skills considerably.
• Students also benefit from learning from each other's mistakes, not just their own, speeding up their learning progress.
• The lessons produce an atmosphere of accountability and sometimes even competitiveness between study partners, which motivates each student to work harder and do their very best.
• Students become familiar with insights, teaching approaches, and materials from their study partner’s school, reinforcing their awareness of their own school’s progress and the Japanese syllabus as a whole.

We are only able to make our Kyōshin Learning Method available to Year 11 and Year 12 students, and only to select students on a case-by-case basis. This is because the matching of ideal students into well-functioning pairs is vital to the effectiveness of the method. We therefore only offer the Kyōshin Learning Method to students once we identify a pair that we believe will be perfectly suited to working together.

Lesson Structure