Comments on: English Survey http://babibubebo.com/2007/01/27/english-survey/ A Photgrapher's Travel Guide to Japan Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:57:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: babibubebo http://babibubebo.com/2007/01/27/english-survey/comment-page-1/#comment-475 babibubebo Sun, 28 Jan 2007 00:28:30 +0000 http://babibubebo.com/2007/01/27/english-survey/#comment-475 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! 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!

]]> By: Lucy http://babibubebo.com/2007/01/27/english-survey/comment-page-1/#comment-474 Lucy Sat, 27 Jan 2007 19:29:01 +0000 http://babibubebo.com/2007/01/27/english-survey/#comment-474 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. 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.

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