Sunday, July 13, 2008

my hard report 2

As I wrote about English of Japanese in last blog, I also want to write about problems of Japanese studying English system at junior and high school. I think classes of English at those schools have many problems. For example, first problem is that they put too much stress on not speaking and listening but reading and writing. The reason why they hardly teach students speaking and listening is that writing and reading is more convenient than those at the point of making tests. That is to say, Japanese study English just for tests or good grade. Second problem is that Japanese teachers teach English in Japanese. I think it's not efficient and it doesn't need concentration on studying for students. I could notice that thing when I started to study English at Ferris University because classes of G class are took place in English, so I must concentrate on understanding what teachers say. I think Japanese classes of English must be like Intensive class of Ferris.

2 comments:

mjpichette said...

Yes, yes, yes! Very thoughtful comments. Your report sounds good. I feel the same way. When we only study to pass a test, we can't really learn the subject deeply. This is especially true for language. Language is by it's nature, a practical thing. If we don't really learn to use it... what's the point!?

mari*U said...

Oh~yes, your thinking is to the point and I really agree with you.
Japanese English teachers are not good at speaking English,so instead of teaching in English,they use Japanese and it's easy for them to teach in Japanese.However,it's hard to improve genuine English skills of srudents. I think Japanese English teachers need to be trained.Or English classes which is held in English should be added.