Japan Today. (n.d.). Retrieved July 16, 2016,
from http://www.japantoday.com/
category/opinions/view/why-are-japanese-so-bad-at-english
How
can Japanese turn them into well English speaker???
Summary
In this article, the author is trying to tell us that the reason why people in japan cannot use English even though they study more than 6 years that at school.(in junior high and high school)
Generally speaking, when people hear those kind of messages, people tend to think like this.
School students get a lesson once a week if they’re lucky, for less than an hour.”
What does this mean??
Students are given few lessons at school. People's attention tended to be directed to this.
However, his main points are quite different and some are quite radical.
The author regards the problem lying in the teacher's way of teaching.( not how they teach English) He insists teachers oppress students to talk during the
class, so it prevents students from talking in English during class.
In addition, he explains it’s because they
are raised up in the school keeping silence is the best thing. Starting joking and
interrupting people have been considered as a rude attitude and they were
abused by this. Therefore, the author suggest children tend to be a silent one
not to be abused and it contributed to the silence in the class during the
class.
Then, he explains that next reason is because people tend to regard English as an optional thing and regard them as an inferior than Japanese.
He explains us that that is what going on in classes and those ideas lead students not to be attracted by the language English.
Those things are what he thinks causing trouble and he thinks that if we could eliminate these objects
We could give better English to students and lead to them as a good English speaker.
He explains us that that is what going on in classes and those ideas lead students not to be attracted by the language English.
Those things are what he thinks causing trouble and he thinks that if we could eliminate these objects
We could give better English to students and lead to them as a good English speaker.
Opinion
I think some of the author’s opinion is
right. However, I think some of the opinions are not appropriate one. For example,
he showed us the reason of why children cannot command English is really exaggerating
one. (He said that is because children have been oppressed by teachers). As he
mentioned, I think it is because of children’s attitude toward class. Their interest
to the class is really unmotivated. However, it is not because of abuse from teachers
as the author mentioned.
Therefore, we are in the time when we have to reconsider entire education system.
In this passage, mainly English is the key theme.
Making English as an interesting thin to study.
Therefore, we are in the time when we have to reconsider entire education system.
In this passage, mainly English is the key theme.
Making English as an interesting thin to study.
Careers After an English Major. (n.d.). Retrieved July 18, 2016, from https://english.stanford.edu/information-for/undergraduates/careers-after-english-major
東大理学部化学科、外国人編入生受け入れ 全授業を英語に. (n.d.).
Retrieved July 16, 2016, from
http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXLASDG30H18_Q4A930C1CR8000/
Will it make students enhance their potential to suceed in the future??
Summary
Tokyo university has decided to make
their daparment of engineering (rigakka) use English in their all classes. Why
are they doing that ???
These days, japanse universities are
annoying with the fact that international students in japan are declining
because of language problem. In other word, japanese is tough to master.
Why are they needing those foreign
students???
As other famous universities in the
world shows, it will give students to get in touch with different thinking
and to meet people who has different background and so on. In other word,
it would broaden the students’ horizon by touching with those students from
abroad. Therefore, Tokyo university decided to make English as their main
language in the department of engineering (rigakka)
In addition to this, they are even
considering to change other department main language to English near the
future.
Opinion
I think it is nice idea to make the
class language to English.
As this article showed, it would give us
lots of opportunities to get in touch with unknown things.
By making it, I think it would give
us, students, diversity in our life, since japan has little diverse culture
when compared to other countries like Brazil, US and so on.
These countries I illustrated are the
role models for the future countries I think because, after globalization
started, it is inevitable for us, mainly young people, to interact with
variety of people and to conversate with them.
Since japan is a country where people
are not so good at English, even though their education is really intensive
one, I think the potential to use English will be really awesome thing for us
to structure better world.
So, I hope this trend would occur other
universities too.
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