Japanese students' English skills improving, but targets unmet

Over half of Japanese public junior and senior high school students met official English proficiency milestones, but further progress is needed to reach the government's more ambitious targets, a recent education ministry survey showed.As generative artificial intelligence, such as ChatGPT, rapidly evolves, the country's education authorities are looking to utilize the technology as an educational tool to improve the English skills of students and help them develop into "global human resources."The government has set targets based on the Eiken Test in Practical English Proficiency, a widely…READ FULL ARTICLE