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こんにちは！CNNのマコトです。
みなさんお元気ですか！？
先日、嬉しいご意見いただいちゃいました！

「マコトさんのブログ読んでますよ！」って、感動です！
ありがとうございます。
これからも、「CNNの奮闘記」書き続けていきますね。

さて、今日は月曜日、CNNの講師によるコラムです。
今日の講師は、JAZZです。
こちらの講師も日本からの生徒さんにたいへん人気がありますね。
なかなか難しい部分はあるかと思いますが、ぜひ挑戦してみてください。



【テーマ】
What Lacks

【要約】
That the kind of exposure a learner had regarding English education affects his character toward the language holds truth. Simply, if you had grown in an environment where the English language is used, you will have a greater tendency of speaking and liking it.

This matter defines great problem to a society where English is “foreign”, and such is the case of SouthKorea.
Many a family never uses this language within their home. May it be that one’s parents or grandparents had never considered this language a necessity in getting a job, or that the opportunity to learn it had not appeared in the past, yet the attitude of today’s generation toward English is still by far affected by their ancestors’ lack of knowledge about English and the persistence in making them, the descendants, learn it only for employment reasons and as a status symbol. What’s missing in this picture is the acknowledgment to the fact that the older generation is trailing behind in terms of using English. This condition validates a scene in the movie“I am Sam”(starring Sean Penn).

Sam was a mentally-challenged father whose capacity to think and respond to his environment was close to a six-year-old’s. He became a father to a fairly intelligent child name Lucy.Sam loved his daughter so much, and he recognized Lucy’s thirst for communication. As a response, he would read her a book every night. This act opened the child to the wonders of literature, and she learned through Sam’s mastery of the book. Lucy heard the same story until she was six. When Lucy reached the age of seven, she asked Sam to read another book.Sam’s incapacity of reading longer and complex words showed, and this prompted Lucy to start disliking further education. She finally confronted her father, saying that she would never read anything that Sam couldn’t himself.This is a truth surrounding the importance of role models in the life of a learner. It is a fact that English can be taught in school, but a young student will always see it as only a subject.What the child doesn’t understand is that English is a language that requires skills, and that those skills could be improved only through constant practice.

This failure of the child is also in part a fault of the parents. What the parents think is that their child goes to school and learns some English words and grammar. That’s almost about it.They leave everything to the child’s language teacher. In this set-up, the child loses the chance to practice his skills at home. It could be that some parents try to practice with their kid, but like Sam, their knowledge about the language soon becomes exhausted, leaving the child on his own. The student slowly declines learning the language further, seeing that it is not necessary in his young life, less in his house. His attitude towards English becomes partial,retarding the development of higher, more natural skills.

There are still a lot to the learner’s environment that would eventually stimulate his desire to learn English. Mass media have ways of delivering English education. However, these do not qualify parents’ passiveness regarding their child’s foreign language education.They still play a big role in fortifying the student’s communication skills. So parents should never disregard their role in their child’s education.

By teacher Jazz


いかがでしたか？
来週はCNNの誇る美人講師Skyです！
久々の登場ですね。
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