Japan Photo Guide » japanese student http://babibubebo.com A Photgrapher's Travel Guide to Japan Thu, 10 May 2012 21:53:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 English Survey http://babibubebo.com/2007/01/27/english-survey/ http://babibubebo.com/2007/01/27/english-survey/#comments Sat, 27 Jan 2007 07:43:23 +0000 babibubebo http://babibubebo.com/2007/01/27/english-survey/ 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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