Oral Interview Guideline

Individual Oral Interview scheduled in the 9th Week (11/3&11/5) will be conducted in the following manner. You should be able to have a short conversation (about 5-7 minutes) on topics related to traveling and/or housing. If you bring artifacts, e.g. pictures of people and places, they will be very useful to make the conversation more interesting and easy to carry on. The interview is conducted individually and solely in Japanese.

1. TOPICS

You can talk about anything that is broadly related to traveling and/or housing. For preparation, ask yourself when, where, what, with whom, how, etc. about each small episode that is part of your whole story.

2. FRAME OF THE INTERVIEW

Opening

Greetings and small talk (e.g., time, date, days of the week, weather and climate, etc.)

Main Conversation

Initiate the conversation on the topic, by introducing it and describing it. You should add your opinions and be able to answer the interviewer’s questions. Also ask the interviewer pertinent questions about the topic.

Closing

Short comments on the interview (e.g. easy, difficult, fun, etc.) and greetings

3. Evaluation Criteria (Total Point = 30)

Information (10):

ability to provide a large amount of information with details

Communication (10):

ability to initiate, sustain, restore, and develop an interactive language use

Language (10):

ability to use complex as well as simple sentence structures with appropriately conjugated verbs and adjectives