More and more elementary school teachers in Japan are turning to English language schools with native speakers as they seek to gain confidence teaching the language before it is formally added to their school curriculums in the academic year starting in April 2020.Many teachers admit to lacking confidence in their English in everything from vocabulary to grammar, expressiveness to pronunciation. Elementary schoolteachers such as Yuko Shigematsu say they are afraid of teaching their students "the wrong thing."Now the ministry of education is providing a roadmap to develop competent English t…READ FULL ARTICLE
