Re: URL: Nova goes belly up in Japan.

Ren wrote:
On Oct 30, 12:59 pm, Travers Naran <tna...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In further news, more broke, drunk English "teachers" who can't speak a
word of Japanese have been found wandering the streets.

That's just sad. I sympathize.

One point that is missed in all this, is that the reason these
Eikaiwa outfits exist is because there are tens of thousands of
"English teachers" fully employed in the school system who really
can barely speak a word of English, supported by a curriculum and
assessment regime that discounts oral skills. Quite a contrast
with Europe, where extraordinary levels of English education
and competancy can be seen, with barely a private school in sight.

I see there is a debate going on in Italy about making English
a compulsory school subject (it isn't at present.) My experience in
Italy is that despite it not being compulsory in schools, English
competence, while low compared with Germany, the Netherlands, etc.,
is higher than in Japan, where it is compulsory.

--
Jim Breen http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/
Clayton School of Information Technology,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia
ジム・ブリーン@モナシュ大学
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