This report is on a performance task practiced in November 2018 in the class "German II", which is offered to third-year students in Keio Senior High School. In this task, the students made five groups, and each group showed two students from Germany one of five buildings or rooms in the school (the main school building, the cafeteria, the training room, the library and the Japanese-style room). Each group described their assigned building or room in German, and then answered questions from the German students.
To prepare for the task, the students made drafts for the school tour using words and expressions based on in-class and textbook materials, and used their knowledge to create "their own German". Then, they improved their texts by performing peer-review and suggesting changes to each other.
According to the students' self-evaluation, after doing the performance task they felt that they hadn't yet acquired enough skills to complete the task, especially related to understanding and answering questions from the German students. But through the practice of this task they raised their awareness of strategies to adopt in order to communicate and learn more effectively.

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