Education

After listening to today’s presentations and reading what the new Minister of Education in the newspapers. Please read the opinion in the December 6th International Herald Tribune. Do you agree with the writer? Why? Give at least 3 examples to support your answer.



I agree with writer. Our mother tongue is not English, but the world common language is English. Asia gets off to a bad start.

"Japanese should be proud that their scores on the Toefl, the test that assesses English proficiency of non-native speakers, rank among the lowest in Asia. That is the result of the country never having been colonized nor forced to speak another language."
Japan was the existence that stood alone like this sentence. Therefore Japan did not come influence of the other countries. When the culture of other countries was in Japan, Japan took means called the national isolation. Japan did not receive a second language. Japan does not have the English history.

"The competition now faced by Japanese company A is not another Japanese company, but Chinese or Korean or American. The embarrassingly low level of English spoken by Japanese managers, while a mere embarrassment before, is now a major business liability,"
Japan cannot speak English fluently, so there is not it in the eyes of other countries. For example, the person of other countries is going to palm off a high thing when we went to the other countries because the Japanese cannot speak English.　Japan is despised by the other countries.

"To forge ahead, Japanese students will also have to overcome their shyness in trying out new words."
Japan is not positive in comparison with the other countries. Japan always falls one step and watches the state of around the country. I think that Japanese reserve. I can't understand that Japanese is afraid of speaking.