13KC1003 YUKI ASHIDA

English courses in

Japanese elementary schools

Literature Review 1 (Nishida)

Nishida supports a proposal to the system of English education in elementary schools in Japan.

☆ Students should learn English while they are young☆Children can have motivation to communicate also in the

future, when they become adults☆ Basic Intepersonal Communication Skills (BICS) = ability for comm such as greetings and responses → 　 build good relations

Literature Review 4 (Mizokami)Literature Review 2 (Hosoki) Literature Review 3 (Tozawa)

It is too hard for young students to acquire English skillsStudents might get wrong knowledge and skills if they are taught

by non-native speakers Introducing English courses does not cultivate communication

skills / deepen international understandingNative pronunciations are not so important International understandings ≠ learning English

NISHIDA

MIZOKAMI

TOZAWA

HOSOKI

Research Question & Hypothesis Research Question:Should English courses be introduced in elementary schools in Japan?

Hypothesis:There is no necessity to introduce English courses in Japanese elementary schools.

To respond to the research question…

November 27↓

December 9

post the link on other websites

to collect a large amount of data

public wall messengers ♫ to collect data from people

that I wanted to ask♫ to increase the credibility

almostrandomlyselected 8 questions

↓79 people

aged 10-20students

35%

36%

19%

6%4%

Figure. 1 Do you think English courses in el-ementary schools in Japan are necessary?

strongly agree

agree

neutral

disagree

strongly disagree

35%+36%=71%= 56 out of 79 people

unexpected

23%

30%18%

24%

5%

Figure. 2 Is it too late if English courses start from middle (junior high) schools?

strongly agree agree

neutral disagree

strongly disagree

Nishida“it is too late if students start learning English from middle school”

23%+30%=53%= 42 out of 79 people

42 out of 56 people

still think

32%

41%

15%

7%5%

Figure.3 Should elementary schools in Japan hire more English native teachers?

strongly agree agree

neutral disagree

strongly disagree

Mizokami“young students cannot always acquire accurate English skills even if they are taught by native speakers.”

still think

Not so imp

To sum up…

It should be suggested that elementary schools in Japan do not to introduce English courses.(1) Japanese ≫ 　 English(2) Might get wrong knowledge(3) Learning English ≠ acquire international

understanding(4) It is too hard

Literature Review

May be necessity to have English courses

From survey…

….in globalized society (world)