{"id":13116,"date":"2010-08-17T11:29:26","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T15:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=13116"},"modified":"2010-08-17T11:29:26","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T15:29:26","slug":"japanese-high-school-english-classes-to-be-taught-in-english-starting-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/17\/japanese-high-school-english-classes-to-be-taught-in-english-starting-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese high school English classes to be taught *in* English starting 2013?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/rc20100812a6.html\" target=\"_blank\">letter published in the <em>Japan Times<\/em> by a Nara-based Japanese teacher of English<\/a>, high schools will be required to teach English class <em>in English<\/em>.\u00a0 And she doesn&#8217;t think the schools will be ready.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Beginning in 2013, high school English classes are to be taught in English. New guidelines from the education ministry also state that English grammar should no longer be taught as a whole subject but instead incorporated with expressions and vocabulary of the new textbook &#8220;English Communication I-III.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the link to the full letter:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/rc20100812a6.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/rc20100812a6.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a letter published in the Japan Times by a Nara-based Japanese teacher of English, high schools will be required to teach English class in English.\u00a0 And she doesn&#8217;t think the schools will be ready. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: Beginning in 2013, high school English classes are to be taught in English. New guidelines from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-3py","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13116"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13119,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13116\/revisions\/13119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}