Cheers filled Fujieda City Hall one day in August, as students responded enthusiastically to an English lesson offered by an assistant language teacher. When the instructor said, “Let’s speak English!” the students shouted “Yeah!” while jumping up and down. But the “students” were not children. They were teachers playing the role of primary school students. […]
Noblesville Schools does not offer a summer program for English Language Learners. Teachers there have, however, learned different strategies to help English Language Learners in the classroom during the school year, said Jeanne Fredericks, the district’s curriculum director. According to her, 283 students in the district describe English as a second language to them.
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For Japanese businesspeople to carry out their duties in English, they should ultimately aim for English skills equivalent to at least 900 points out of 990 on the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC)–a near-native speakers’ level–a group of researchers has proposed, based on a survey of more than 7,300 businesspeople.
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Sri Lanka: Taking English to far-flung places
It is a lazy Sunday morning but a diverse group from all over the country is gathered in Colombo intently listening to senior trainers going through the paces of how to teach English. This is just one of the numerous workshops and training programmes for teachers and would-be […]
ETJ One-Day Certificate Course in Teaching Japanese Students (For Teachers of Teenagers and Adults)This year’s course will be held in the following cities:
Sunday June 1st - Tokyo
Sunday June 8th - Osaka
Sunday June 15th - Nagoya
Training sessions:
‘Reading skills -methods and applications‘ Rob Waring (Notre Dame Seishin University)
‘Teaching skills for listening and speaking‘ Alastair Graham-Marr (Tokai University)
‘Teaching […]
SELHi in Action / No Japanese Translation in This Class
In 2005, the Asahikawa Kita High School was designated as a curriculum research school (foreign language) by the National Institute for Educational Policy Research. The school changed its English teaching method from a conventional grammar translation method to immersive English education. Although the institute’s designation expired […]
