{"id":16912,"date":"2011-02-16T11:21:11","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T15:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=16912"},"modified":"2011-02-16T11:21:11","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T15:21:11","slug":"japanese-primary-school-teachers-unhappy-with-new-english-teaching-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/16\/japanese-primary-school-teachers-unhappy-with-new-english-teaching-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese primary school teachers unhappy with new English teaching role?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Thanks to JET alum <strong>Conrad Chafee<\/strong> for sharing this article from the <strong>Daily Yomiuri (2\/16\/11)<\/strong>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;60% of Schoolteachers Irked by English Classes&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;More than 60 percent of primary school teachers feel teaching English  is a burden, according to a survey that also suggests many educators  are ill-prepared for the April start of English as a compulsory subject  for fifth- and sixth-graders.  Benesse Corp., a correspondence education and publishing company,  surveyed head teachers in charge of school administration and fifth- and  sixth-grade homeroom teachers from 8,000 public primary schools in July  and August. About 4,700 teachers gave valid responses.<br \/>\nAccording to the survey, 62.1 percent of homeroom teachers, who  teach all or most of the subjects at primary schools, said they felt  teaching English was a burden. About 72.9 percent said they believe it  would be better to have teachers who specialize in teaching English to  instruct students.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See the full article at: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yomiuri.co.jp\/dy\/national\/T110215005684.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.yomiuri.co.jp\/dy\/national\/T110215005684.htm<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to JET alum Conrad Chafee for sharing this article from the Daily Yomiuri (2\/16\/11): &#8220;60% of Schoolteachers Irked by English Classes&#8221; &#8220;More than 60 percent of primary school teachers feel teaching English is a burden, according to a survey that also suggests many educators are ill-prepared for the April start of English as a [&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":[30,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan-trends","category-language-study"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-4oM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16912","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=16912"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16914,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16912\/revisions\/16914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}