Overview of Issues : Anthony Robins
9 key questions which I asked participants to focus on:
1: Which skills should be taught?
Just speaking and listening, or reading and writing
as well?
2: How can we motivate children to learn English
at
elementary school?
3: Who can do the teaching?
The homeroom teacher
A Japanese assistant with English experience
A native-speaker teacher or assistant
4: How can homeroom teachers improve their English
skills and confidence?
5: How can the two main purposes, encouraging
interest
in language(s) and increasing knowledge about other
countries and cultures, be combined?
6: If time for English is limited, can we increase
it by
bringing it into other subjects?
7: How can we organize year long programs which
introduce new material and recycle material?
8: How can we make a clear progression from
younger
grades to older grades, to reflect different ages and
give a clear impression of progress?
9: How should elementary school English and
junior high
school English interact?