Classroom English for More Effective Learning
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The importance of English has increasingly been advocated, and yet a large number of Japanese have still difficulty in commanding the language. In an attempt to drastically reform English education in our country, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology formulated a Strategic Plan to Cultivate Japanese with English Abilities in 2003. Training junior and high school teachers over five years is one of the concrete measures. To this end, some college instructors were asked to carry out on-the-job training at a local level. I had been asked to give lectures, together with other instructors, to the English teachers in Oita prefecture. My presentation in 2007, the last year of the Strategic Plan, was on classroom English, English used in ordinary English classes, to enhance students' communicative competence. The bare facts are that the majority of English classes in Japan, irrespective of education levels, are being conducted in Japanese. The ideal situation, however, will be a case where English is actively and overwhelmingly used in class. After exemplifying part of classroom English, referring to a college textbook two of my colleagues and I published, I urged the attendees to act out their ordinary English class using English to the fullest. The participants were divided into ten groups and after some consultation, each group was to demonstrate their would-be English class where their students are also engaged in using the target language in response to the teachers. Although I gave two presentations to both junior high school teachers and high school teachers, this article is largely based on the presentation given to the high school teachers.
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