On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:31:23 +0900, Ryan Ginstrom  ...
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>"Dave Fossett" <reply@via.newsgroup> wrote in message
>news:ptCnb.1574$l63.1332@news1.dion.ne.jp...
>> As Mr Sumo mentioned, it seems to be the belief that English teachers
>should
>> not speak Japanese in the classroom. I never understood the logic behind
>> that either.
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>It's because it's 英会話, not 英語. You can rest assured that all
>the 英語
>classes will be taught entirely in Japanese, with precious little actual
>English heard.
>

When I was an ALT the teacher I worked with wrote a simple English sentence on
the board then over a 50 min class filled the board with Japanese. I went back
to the teachers room to get my camera but it was gone before I got back.




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"No country hides itself behind the paper screen of cultural elitism like Japan,
which, considering they've bought their entire civilisation from other people's
hand-me-downs, is a bit of a liberty."