" Interview with Mr.Fullante "

                  I interviewed Mr.Fullante, who is the visiting associate professor 
            of Kanda University of International Studies on June 16, 1998.  Firstly I'd 
            like to introduce him.  He was born in Philippine and grew up in the U.S.  
            His major is the internal and comparative education.  Now he goes to Waseda 
            University as well as Kanda University of International Studies.  Next, I'd 
            like to talk about our discussion.  The contents are as fellows; 

            Takayuki (T): What's your creativity in your class?
            Mr.Fullante (F): Change the theme.
            (T): Change the theme?
            (F): Yes, I always change the theme if students are not interested in the topic.        
                 And I always ask students "Why" questions, because many Japanese people 
                 often say "Me too" or "I have same opinion with ***".  That is, I always 
                 get students to say their opinions on their own words so that students can 
                 state their opinions in every situation.
            (T): I heard this university has a good English Teaching System. Please tell me 
                 the feature of this university.  
            (F): First, there are many foreign professors.  I don't know the rate, but in 
                 comparison with Waseda, there are many foreign professors.  This is a good 
                 advantage.  And next, we professor emphasis the speaking skill in even 
                 reading class, so students have lots of opportunities to speak English 
                 compared with other university students.  The third is that class is not 
                 large, I mean, even in maximum class, the class consists of 32 students.  
                 The last is that there are many mixed language classes, which means that 
                 the mixed class is composed of freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors. 
                 Freshmen can listen to lots of experience seniors have and feel relaxed 
                 because there is no silence in the class owing to talkative seniors.

             (T): Where is creative in Japan?  For instance, as to the Japanese buildings, 
                  do you think these creative?
             (F): No, these are very boring to me, because Japanese buildings have no 
                  characters, that is, almost all of buildings are same shapes, however, 
                  I think old buildings such as temples and gardens are very creative.  
                  As for the old buildings, building itself and roof, especially angle, 
                  are very creative.  In the old buildings, people's creativity is in there.  
                  As for the garden, Japanese people don't break the nature, which means 
                  people express as it is.
   
              Comments 
              I think the last one, mixed class, is very creative because, as Mr. Fullante 
              says, students can listen to many opinions from wide age of people and rethink 
              their opinions.  In this sense, our "Change and Creativity" class is as same 
              as that class.  We, therefore, should make much more comments in class and 
              create good relationships one anther.

Written by Takayuki Fujii
based on the his portfolio project of 1998



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