- 8 Apr 2004
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Hello, native English speakers.
I'd appreciate it if you would correct my sentences.
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In this school year, I taught English in high school for a year.
(In Japan, the school year starts in April and ends in March.)
It was the first time I've ever taught in high school.
When I first taught the students at the school I was assigned to,
I was really surprised how awful their English abilities were.
Some of them even don't know the very basic grammar rules of English.
One student wrote like this, "mother dog like", trying to mean "My mother
like dogs." She didn't know that the word order is different between
in English and in Japanese.
Even students with highest grades wrote like these; "When are you came here?",
"I went to here", "Tom has been Kyoto ". I was astonished.
I think that the way English has been taught in this country is totally wrong.
I know how difficult it is to teach a language to people who don't need to use
the language at all. But I believe that there should be a better way to teach
English in Japan.
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Thanks in advance.
Hirashin, an English teacher
I'd appreciate it if you would correct my sentences.
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In this school year, I taught English in high school for a year.
(In Japan, the school year starts in April and ends in March.)
It was the first time I've ever taught in high school.
When I first taught the students at the school I was assigned to,
I was really surprised how awful their English abilities were.
Some of them even don't know the very basic grammar rules of English.
One student wrote like this, "mother dog like", trying to mean "My mother
like dogs." She didn't know that the word order is different between
in English and in Japanese.
Even students with highest grades wrote like these; "When are you came here?",
"I went to here", "Tom has been Kyoto ". I was astonished.
I think that the way English has been taught in this country is totally wrong.
I know how difficult it is to teach a language to people who don't need to use
the language at all. But I believe that there should be a better way to teach
English in Japan.
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Thanks in advance.
Hirashin, an English teacher