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-A system geared towards spitting out answers on exams, not actually being able to communicate or express your thoughts or say anything practical.

-Most of the kids are being taught by Japanese English Teachers who are incapable of communicating in basic English.

-The horrible practice of writing out katakana pronunciations for English words. Sorry, you can’t say every English word using Japanese sylables. (even the Japanese teachers write katakana above English words in their teachers’ edition textbooks)

-A system based on “equality” in which students can get 0 points on every single English assignment, yet advance to the next year of English. The result are a good number of students who are hopelessly behind and no longer care. They act up and distract students who might actually be able to learn. Also, the whole curriculum is dumbed down for the not-so-smart kids.

-The inefficient dumbed-down education system forces parents to enroll their children in private cram schools. In cram schools kids learn what they should have learned in school. The cram schools also focus on rote memorization for the sake of spitting out answers on tests.

-ALT’s: Instead of actually making meaningful reforms such as requiring the Japanese teachers to be proficient in English, the Japanese government decided to throw away huge amounts of money hiring random foreigners to be assistant language teachers. It might sound like a great idea, but in the end it is a waste because they simple do not fit into the existing system. Most of them just read sentences from the textbook like a tape recorder.

I don’t think it has anything to do with laziness to learn. It’s the result of a flawed system which is unable to reform itself.

And they are not doing anything about it. I mean, come on… it’s English and it’s an international language, but they even can’t be bothered to improve it. Does it have anything to do with their attitude to accept new culture/language? Or, are they simply lazy to learn???

Why else would an advanced nation and the world’s second economy not be able to learn English? I mean, Japan’s TOEFL scores, on average, are the lowest in Asia aside from North Korea!!!!

That is a shame.

It indicates that the Japanese education system is terrible when it comes to English teaching. About 50% of the Japanese English teachers I’ve met are incapable of writing better than the responses I posted here.