Showing posts with label ELT. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ELT. Show all posts

Friday, 10 January 2014

A Classroom in Japan

What happens in Japanese ELT classroom?
  • A big class size: 30 〜 40 students each class.

  • The differences in the students' capability of English language is striking.

  • Teachers are always too busy to spare enough time for lessons. Because they have to play variety kinks of roles; such as consulting a student and his/her parents, managing a homeroom, guiding students for the future course, taking charge of club activites, doing school duties assingned to an individual teacher, having an experimental class and so on.

  • A New Course of Study focuses on the communicative English and the MEXT prescribed that English high school teachers in Japan should primalily conduct an English class through English.

  • Some students are never interested in English language. They think that they don't need English for their life. That is, their motivation in English is really low. On the other hand, other students are indulge in their learning English and won the devate competetion or won the championship in the speech contest.
The cherry blossoms in  my neighborhood.
Cherry trees are in full blossom in most all the schools in Japan in April.   It looks that cherry trees give us their blessing.

New semester starts in April in Japan. April is the new starting point for the freshmen and every students have their hopes up.

We, teachers, also hope that all the students will attain their goals and graduate from the school with delight. We teachers think that our main job is helping the students grow up to be a good member of the society. It is not just teaching English, but also fostering human nature through English teaching or other school activities.
This is a very impressive song by Naotaro Moriyama 'Sakura'.  Click here.