Teaching Abroad in Japan

Teaching English Abroad Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation Abstract English is now considered as an international language since the era of globalization. It is of great importance that English be viewed as a window to see the world with different perception not as it been a one region language but as a mode of interaction and exchange of ideas. Asia, been to the areas where English did not emanate, is an area of interest to develop the English language due to their vast wealth of money and resources. Zeroing our interest in Japan, English is a key to connect with the Western modernized technological and scientific advances. This paper will address some issues concerning the situation of teaching English in Japan and how that relates to the outside world. Introduction Since the World War II, mushrooming of the global economy has made English to play a crucial role in the standard language of the globe. In a wider perspective, numerous students are learning English as the most vital foreign language to communicate with the world effectively. Many people in the universe unanimously regard English as the most imperative language for cross-bounder interaction. From the Japanese point of view, English is not a language to communicate only with British or Americans or any natives of English. However, is a common language to interact with Koreans, Chinese, Singaporeans, Thais and other Asians and other developing nations. English has recorded a remarkable history over the past four decades due to its global spread and penetrated through the multicultural and multinational communication. As English Language scale to greater heights, the language is limited to portray a diversion of disparity in cultures. It is a matter of fact that there is no particular language that can be exploited to its fullest by its native speakers; a room for improvement is always there for non-native speakers to utilize it in a more peculiar form of English usage, syntactically, pragmatically, lexically and phonetically. Japan is using the English language not only to know the west but at the same time to make the globe understand Japan into depth. Background information of ELT in Abroad The English language has no dominancy in the land of Japan. On the contrary, English was highly condemned to avoid Western influence ad contamination of Japanese culture. After New Japan was established, Russian became the only foreign language as the campaign against American imperialism was spearheaded. Those changes did not last for long as Japan saw the need of incorporating English as a common language so as to open up opportunities overseas for its citizens (Bay, 2002). English was viewed as a vehicle to alter an average Japanese citizen fate of being limited to their motherland and relate with the whole world. Japan now considers English as a tool for expanding her technology and scientific development to other countries while interacting at a more economic level. Japan has now grown economically, and that is evident by their registration to WTO (the World Trade Organization) and their bid for 2008 Olympic Games. An estimated number of people studying English in Japan are greater than that of native speakers in the world. The idea of teaching English...