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Survey Results on English Education in Primary schools

Survey Results on English Education in Primary schools. Shien Sakai ECML, Feb. 2014. Procedures & Results. 09. – 12. 2013. 2800 elementary schools (10% of total). 84.3% response rate) licensed teachers 49(5.5%) Japanese assistants 21 (2.3%) assistant language teachers 12 (1.3%)

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Survey Results on English Education in Primary schools

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  1. SurveyResults on English Education in Primary schools Shien Sakai ECML, Feb. 2014

  2. Procedures & Results • 09. – 12. 2013. • 2800 elementary schools (10% of total). • 84.3% response rate) • licensed teachers 49(5.5%) • Japanese assistants 21 (2.3%) • assistant language teachers 12 (1.3%) • others 52名(5.8%) total 890 (100.0%)

  3. Classroom instruction • No reading or writing instruction • 65% teach English without introduction of alphabet • 29.7% incorporate reading of easy words into the instruction • 27.6% incorporate elementary letter writing • 3.7% incorporate writing at word level

  4. 1st Phase of instruction • Activities using nouns, adjectives and basic verbs • 72% of words instructed are nouns. • T’s don’t employ grammatical sentences. • Instead, mainly using nouns, adjectives, basic verbs with intonation effectively, T’s have S’s answer “Yes” or “No.” • Use of pronoun “I” and “you” is taught • Numbers are taught mainly in this phase.

  5. 2nd Phase of instruction • T’s use grammatical sentences: affirmative, negative or interrogative. • A word “not” is introduced. • % of nouns is decreased to 63%; % of verbs is increased to 15%. • Pronouns “we”, “she”, “my”, “me” appear. • An article “a” is introduced. • What, when, who, how, why are introduced. • Prepositions are NOT introduced.

  6. 3rd Phase of instruction • % of nouns is decreased to 49%. • % of verbs is increased to 17%. • 12 Basic prepositions are introduced. • introduction of because; why-because structure is taught. • other pronouns are introduced. • an, the are taught

  7. Policy to make English an official subject at elementary school level (survey results) • For 305 (45.3%) • Against 344(51.1%) • ProbableReason：Shortage of qualified teachers and training systems.

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