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6/20/2010

英語のできない英語教師を量産するのは...

英語のできない英語教師が多すぎるよ。自分の仕事についてそれほど不自由なく書いたり話したりできない教師が、英語が使える生徒を育てられるはずもなし。

There are simply too many English teachers who are not good enough at the language they are getting paid to teach. There is no way that someone who cannot comfortably talk and write about the most familiar topic, his/her daily duties, can produce students who can use English at a functional level.

でもそれって誰のせい? それは英語教員養成している大学の教師のせいでしょ。つまり我々。

But who is responsible for that? Whose fault is it that there are so many English-incompetent English teachers in the society? No doubt, those who are teaching university TEFL methodology courses are to blame -- partly, at least. Yes. That's us.