Is it really necessary to speak English for college exams?Great English education reform before starting

　From FY2020, a qualification and certification test for private traders to measure four English skills will be introduced in the successor to the university entrance examination center exam.There are also items that measure the ability to "speak" in the university entrance exam, and the four skills of reading, writing, listening, and speaking are required.

　Third -year high school students and graduates can take the test from the Eiken and TOEFL IBT between April and December, and submit the results to the university entrance examination center twice.Although it has actually been less than 10 months until the start of the new entrance examination system, there are a lot of issues in terms of fair security and teaching methods, so there are growing calls to stop using private examinations.

　On June 18, university professors who oppose the introduction of private examinations held a press conference in Tokyo, and all applicants were unable to take the test without any trouble, and the examinees were spread, and many examinees were inadequate system.He complained that it would be sacrificed.A petition with a signature of about 8,000 brushes that agreed with the purpose was submitted to some members of the Diet.The request for the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology also handed the request.

　In the request form, in addition to items that complain of concerns about the lack of the exam system, the exam venue and the financial burden, and the results of multiple private examinations, see the European Language Up.It also includes the problem of the use of the frame (CEFR).

　Contrasting with CEFR has no scientific backing, and using a concept that is not an international standard in the first place is a problem."CEFR has recently been revised to items, but the one used as a contrast table in this entrance examination reform has not changed.At the time of our way, it was out as an entrance examination system. "

　According to Kimihiko Abe, a professor at the Graduate School of Humanities, the University of Tokyo, who also attended the conference, said, "The simplified test system is difficult to understand due to the introduction of a private exam.It has only been explained in the color of roses that I can speak English. On the other hand, the students are worried that it is difficult to have four skills in the cram school, education industry and English conversation classes. These backfires.It has led to the current turmoil. "

　Mr. Abe, who has strictly pointed out this issue in his books while teaching students to students at the University of Tokyo about English and American literature.We asked about the Ministry of Education's policy that emphasizes "4 skills".

「入試がマーケットに」

Q About introducing private examinations in English for university entrance examinations

The cause of the confusion was that he tried to replace the university entrance examination into a "market" for interest -fighting.As a trader, in order to protect the business that has been done so far, he cannot miss this movement, and he has to make friends with politicians, such as donating.It would be inevitable that a trader would try to pursue profits.But that is public education.Originally, it is strange that politicians who have to look at the balance between the "public" perspective and the pursuit of "I" are rather fueling greedy profit."Improving the four skills in English" is just the theory of a shelter.

Q4 It is said that it is important to acquire the skills in a well -balanced manner.

A is a good place to look down.Even if you hear the claims of private exam promotion groups, you can not see specific measures just by calling "4 skills" or "well -balanced" like Nembutsu.This is just a blind and sparse "four -skilled".The study time for junior and senior high school students is exposed.It is necessary to think about how to prioritize and how to study in the order, but if you take four tests, you will advertise as if everything is well -balanced.Obviously misleading, like fraud.

　First of all, I want you to answer what "well -balanced" means.The level that many high school students can read is reasonable, but it is less than elementary school students.Do you want to drag everything to elementary school level with "equal"?You should first train the parts that are easy to grow, the parts needed in university education, and the important parts as a basis.There is also a voice saying "evenly", but what do you do?There is no evidence of the ability, whether it is time to spend, or just a score.

　As you can see in Japanese, the ability to read and listen in your native language is not evenly acquired.We can read and understand even if we can't write very much on ourselves.You can understand what you can't speak in your own way.Even in learning the second language, it is necessary to focus on such reality.The most difficult thing is to write.The start is "listening" and "reading".The idea of acquiring four skills at the junior and senior high school level is a fantasy.

「なぜ日本人は話せないか」

Q. Why can't Japanese speak English?

A is often said, "If you can't speak, you're in trouble in your business."However, it is not enough to think why Japanese people can not speak.A country like Japan, which is almost enough in Japanese, is rare in the world.For this reason, it is difficult to raise the habit of switching language switches.When speaking in a foreign language, you are too nervous or shy because you don't have the habit of switching languages on a daily basis.

　Also, in the first place, there is no opportunity to touch English in everyday life, but it is not possible to do it just by taking 4 or 5 hours of English at school.It is said that if you go abroad for about six months and live in English, you will suddenly hear English sounds.This is because the body learns the rhythm of English, but it is inefficient to listen to it.If you live in English and be driven and need to be needed, your concentration will increase and your learning efficiency will increase dramatically.When studying English in Japan, the point is how much you can concentrate on English.It is a place to show the skills of the school teacher, such as how to do homework.

Q There are differences in how to speak in Japanese and English.

A The decisive differences are stress accents.Stress accents are the basis of English and are based on the laws of exercise that is not in Japanese.This is basically an "unexperienced zone" for Japanese speakers, so I want to learn with my body in the end, but there are various entrances.Before you get used to English, you will inevitably try to hear the sound of all the dark clouds, but English is a mechanism that you can understand when you listen to the part where the rhythm has become stronger.It would be nice to practice specializing there.

　I want to focus more on listening from that point.Japanese people often say, "I can't speak," but they often can't hear them.If you can't hear it, you can't talk.Also, if you hear what you have heard, you will naturally come up with words.

　Also, don't forget that the number of sounds is different between Japanese and English.In English, what Japanese speakers do not regard as "sound" must be distinguished.When speaking, I usually say sounds that I do not use.I think it's embarrassing.English speech is difficult for Japanese speakers to associate.So since the Meiji era, Japanese people have always been told that they can't speak English.Russian and Spanish are much easier.

　Because there is such a handicap, it is difficult to listen to and speak in English, if it goes well, you are lucky, you can not do anything you can do without studying with a lot of feelings.I have to think that English is a completely different "event" from Japanese.It is evidence that you do not know the current situation, such as being able to speak by putting speaking in the exam.Students will only take measures to take the exam and do it.Nothing is more motivated than the ability to talk.

　And "talking" is just an exchange.Many of the private English exams this time, a method of blowing a sound towards the tablet is adopted, but in an artificial test that can only be said to the machine in one minute, it is actually an artificial test.Do you think it will be a practice of exchanging?