If you are a decent user of English, you don't need any Japanese English teachers. All you need is socializing with native Englsih speakers. You will learn the language while you try to have good communication with them. It's so much more fun than learning it in a classroom setting by Japanese English teachers with more or less limited English ability with or without the 1st level qualification of English proficiency by STEP.
If you are really serious about improving our high school teachers' English, let's do whatever it takes to do it. Probably it might NOT be such a waste of money once they get more motivated to do something about their English. As a consequence it will do a lot of good to their students as well.
The cause of the problem is found in the conservative employment system of the teachers in what we call public school. Teachers in the public school are primarily a public workers, who are working without any competition at all. The critical lack of the English ability found with the most of the "English(!)" teachers cannot be solved by such measures as training, studying abrosad or whatever, because there are no chance in which teachers are motivated to brush up their ability, though I don't deny those measures can be a waste of money, time and labour. This true also to the teachers of other subjects working without any competition.
Oh my, now I found some or mistakes or misspellings in what I just wrote in the last response, which teachers might be very eager to point out in the classroom(w.
>>935 Yes. That's extremely right, and it's not a laughing matter.
Teachers working under no competition, are never motivated to improve their ability. That's studying abroad as well as any other training measures will be a waste of money.
So, what will be your suggestion? If it is not altogether each teacher's fault but the fault of the conservative system with no competitions, what can we do to make the present situation a little better?
As you know, they, (I mean, we, because I'm one of them) have a pretty strong Labor Union, though it's got a lot weaker, compared with 10 years ago. You just cannot sack English teachers or any other teachers because their knowledge or skills in their field are mediocre or limited, right?
Almost 95% of junior high schoolers enter senior high schools in our country, which means theare are schools with the least motivated learners. They learn what they are supposed to learn in their junior schools in their three years in senior high school or shorter period, because as many as 15% students drop out from senior high schools. What is neede in those schools is not English ability but the love towards them. The love, (well, I'm getting embarrassed to say this) to get them to the right track.
>>945 > -- the grammar of 940 and 941 -- messy -- しょ > although he is not a department of English -- KORE -- just for a moment . . . >it does not have the 1st class of this man -- is the main point of SURE suited also at ?
No. Why privatization? I talked about the some change, reform, restructuring or whatever, of the employment system of the teachers in the public school.
If you are given the same salary disregarding the performance of the job, nobody tries to make efforts to improve his ability. And that is really being happend in the teachers' world. Don't you think so?
>>942 >As you know, they, (I mean, we, because I'm one of them) have a pretty >strong Labor Union...
Employment system is formulated and maintained by some governments, sponsored by the taxpayers, not the Labor Unions. And the Labor Unions are working in the private companies, where more competitive employment system is adopted. So it's not relevant to associate the Labore Unions with the employment system, Iguess.
But if you claim that teacher's labor union make a fuss, when the employment system of the teachers is reconsidered, I agree, though I suppose it's a kind of intimidation. And I also think that the taxpayers have a right to fuss about the present employment system of the teachers, in which the same salary is given to even to teachers of the low performance.
>>941 >Almost 95% of junior high schoolers enter senior high schools in our >country, which means theare are schools with the least motivated learners.
Why the high rate of students proceeding to higher education means their low motivation? This statistics should be undestood the sign of the high motivation of the students, and if you insist that it means the low motivation, there should be a lot of explanation and discussion. You just jump to your favorite conclusion.
>>941 >The love, (well, I'm getting embarrassed to say this) to get them to the right track.
Love is fine.(w But this new idea will just help accelrate your confused point of view. I suppose that you are only pushing your thought without defining the words or terms so far. Don't worry. Nobody embarrasses himself. You are just wishing to confuse yourself without knowing, and people around you in addition, right? Those who don't want their performance questioned often try to mess up the discussion and resort to the unclear idea. This is a typical symptom of teachers, I guess.