Japanese schools teach English literacy before oral-aural competency, inverting the natural sequence¶

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Evidence · 1 study · theoretical r2 · q1
Currency · newest study 1997 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person
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q1 i? Japanese schools emphasize reading, grammar exercises and translation while the natural oral-aural stage is almost completely ignored. → Neiburg 1997

Evidence¶

Neiburg 1997¶

Neiburg, Michael S. (1997). Following Native Language Acquisition. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (23rd, Hamamatsu, Japan, October 11, 1997). https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED417613

q1 · i? · theoretical · r2

The article's observational critique of the Japanese educational system states that "Beginning learners of English as a foreign language are taught reading,mostly by the translation method, and do grammar exercises," with the natural stage almost completely ignored. This is the author's descriptive analysis, not a measured comparison.

"Beginning learners of English as a foreign language are taught reading,mostly by the translation method, and do grammar exercises."

Discussion¶

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