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Tweet Japan: Teaching-English-in-Japan-Education-Yukako Yukako Uchinaga, CEO of Berlitz has cited worried teachers leaving Japan and the threat of blackouts as having had a significant effect on the language school operator’s business immediately following the March 11th earthquake, with 40% of its teachers becoming unavailable. She noted that the Bennesse subsidiary has consequently realized “the need [...] Tweet Afghanistan & Japan: When Pamela Tucker last deployed to Iraq, she wore a uniform and carried a weapon. On her current deployment to Afghanistan, notes Stars and Stripes website, she’s armed only with the language course curriculum that she uses to teach Afghans English. Tucker, a Department of Defense Education Activity teacher from Misawa [...] Tweet The AmerAsian School in Okinawa (AASO) is unique in that it enrolls almost exclusively biracial American-Japanese students, and has developed an original bilingual, bicultural “double” curriculum. Founded in 1998 by five Okinawan mothers, the privately run, K-9 school of 80 students contends that “Amerasian” children have the right to study in both Japanese and [...] Tweet Japan: According to a report in the Daily Yomiuri, many schools may cancel or postpone summer trips aborad because of swine flu. Some schools may make trips inside Japan instead of going overseas. Both parents and teachers are becoming increasingly concerned about the dangers of sending students overseas especially because the four Japanese nationals [...] Tweet Japan: Yomiuri notes that with the rapid progress of globalization, the English language is playing a growing role in people’s lives. This special section takes an overview of how Japanese interact with English, by featuring several individuals who utilize their expertise in this widely used lingua franca. Read more… Sphere: Related Content Tweet Some local governments can’t afford native speakers for primary schools Japan: Yomiuri.com notes that, though many municipalities plan to employ native English speakers or bilingual people to teach public primary schools’ fifth- and sixth-grade students’ English classes in April, a recent Yomiuri Shimbun survey showed that some cash-strapped municipalities are reluctant to do so [...] Tweet Japan: Notes the Japan Times – ‘An American friend recently asked me a difficult question: How do you bring up a bilingual child?’ Asks Roger Pulvers. ‘She and her Japanese husband now have a 2-year-old son, and they are keen for him ultimately to be fluent in Japanese and English. This is a complex [...] Tweet Japan: December’s unexpected announcement from the Education, Science and Technology Ministry that high schools would be required to teach in English as much as possible also acted as an impetus for Ochi, notes the Daily Yomiuri. The ministry’s proposal was finalized last week, and the revised teaching guidelines for high schools are due [...] Tweet Scotland and Japan: Trainee architect Michael Gilchrist had one year to go before qualifying in his chosen profession… then recession struck and the former Charleston Academy pupil found himself redundant from the Glasgow firm for which he was working. With prospects running out he decided to cast around for something different to fill the [...] Tweet Germany and Japan: Yomiuri notes how ‘The White Horse Theatre’, a theatrical troupe based in Germany but specialising in English-language theater for students, will make its third tour of Japan this autumn. Established in 1986 by British playwright and drama teacher Peter Griffith, Europe’s biggest educational touring theater performs annually for 40,000 people [...]  |
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