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TEFL Yinchuan

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This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned:

M.S. - Japan said:
Students in japan are as smart as students in any other country. In elementary school, they are inquisitive, and aren't completely ashamed of mistakes. If you get the chance to teach english to elementary students in japan, it's a lot of fun, and you get a lot of participation. This depends on the school district, of course, but through personal experience and speaking with friends, this seems to be the case. Take those students and move them into middle school, and the story changes. english is now a required course, and the english language, once interesting and fun, becomes a chore. Students become quiet, and withdrawn. In japan, attending high school is not a given, nor required. Students have to take entrance exams to get into any high school. Each student's english ability is tested in these difficult entrance exams, and in preparation for these entrance exams, students must also take formal exams from the district and prefectural boards of education. japanese middle schools focus on these formal tests, and because spoken english is not a requirement on any of these tests, conversation and active use of the language is often left out of the english classroom. The same thing happens in high schools as well, the difference being that the students and schools are required to focus on college entrance exams instead. Having spoken english on the low-priority lists is only one of the problems for english language learners in japan. Although many public schools around the nation have included team teaching classes for english — which means that a native speaker comes in to help the main teacher and students teach and learn english more effectively — japanese is still used in the classrooms far more than half of the time. Native-speaking japanese teachers teach english grammar in japanese, and translate english reading passages back into japanese. teachers in japan have to do this in order to teach the government-required material quickly enough so that students can pass the next formal test required by the local or prefectural board of education. It's not the fault of the teachers or the schools that english is taught this way. The education system in japan, or the part of government in control of the country's education, has deemed, intentionally or not, that this is the way for english to be taught. For tefl teachers trying to teach public school high school and middle school students in japan, this is understandably very frustrating. As the students come to realize that they only need to know and use a certain amount of english, the majority become less focused in class, and constantly ask if the activity you're using or grammar you're teaching will be on the upcoming test. Students who want to become good at english often do not get the support they need from their school, and have to go to cram schools in the evenings if they want to excel past the government standard (this is the case for students who want to achieve more in any subject). Students who go to cram school study much later, have more homework, and have even more tests to pass. This often leaves these students tired and unfocused in the english classroom. They're smart enough to pay attention to what they need to pass required tests, and know that they'll receive extra help at their cram school later, so why should they put in more effort than necessary? Public middle and high school students in japan may find english difficult and a chore to learn for a number of reasons. To help these students get more interested and involved in the classroom, tefl teachers must bring a lot of energy into the classroom, use interesting material, and be willing to try a number of different activities to get students to forget about their entrance exams just long enough to enjoy experimenting with english again. In this way, teachers can solve some of the problems younger students in japan face when trying to learn english.


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