English Survey

babibubebo | 27 01 2007

Yeah I know this has nothing to do with photography in Japan, but I am trying to broaden my horizons a little and I am sharing this with you because I found the results somewhat interesting. The thing is, I had to give a presentation about Japanese student motivation in English class. For this presentation, the other presenter and I decided it would be useful to give our students a survey.

We conducted a survey with about 200 Japanese high school students that are in their first year of high school. Students had to answer on a scale of 1-5 with 5 being “strongly agree” and 1 being “strongly disagree.” The overall results are not too different from what I expected; however, things do start to get interesting once you break it down and separate the opinions of the boys vs. girls.

Japanese High School Student Survey--I Like English

Things are not too different above, however…

Japanese High School Student Survey--English is Difficult

As you can see, the girls find English much more difficult than the boys do, but….

Japanese High School Student Survey--Will English be useful in the Future?

About 74% of the girls felt English will be useful in the future compared to only 25% of the boys.

I think English is Cool

Also the girls think English is cool while the boys, well, don’t.

I want to Travel Abroad

While the boys answers were somewhat evenly spread out, the girls want to do some traveling.

I want to make foreign friends

The results were pretty even for this one, which actually is somewhat surprising; however it is interesting to me that 31% of boys and 27% of girls do not want foreign friends.

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  • http://lucylou.info/ Lucy

    Quite an interesting survey!

    I wonder if the boys are just more lax in their studies in general, which causes them to be less stressful about studying English and thus don’t dislike the subject if they don’t do so well. And obviously, they probably won’t think much about the subject if they don’t think it’s important.

    Although, when I spoke with Japanese college students in a teacher training college, it didn’t seem like a lot of them placed much importance on learning English at all, though some of them were plainly training to become English teachers. It was quite worrisome talking in the slowest and simplest English I could manage and still not be understood by two male students who wanted to become English teachers.

  • http://babibubebo.com babibubebo

    Yeah I think you hit the nail on the head about them not thinking it is important and thinking English will not be useful in the future so they don’t want to study it at all….which makes my classes difficult sometimes. :-)

    And yes, it is a problem with some Japanese teachers of English because they cannot speak English very well. Of course some have excellent English but others….. Let’s just say it wouldn’t hurt a few to go back and take some refresher courses!