Jan 23
This is my third article on the English Center Test. This time, let’s look at translation. Many English teachers in Japan feel that they need to translate English into Japanese, or that students need to translate the English in to Japanese. This has its uses, but they are few. This time, we will look at …
Jan 22
We talked about grammar and the English Center Test in the last post. We saw that in the first section we looked at, Part 2, Section A, that what looks like grammar questions, are in fact, testing usage. They do not test grammar. Next, I will look at the only section that really requires that …
Jan 21
Today, I want to talk about the English Center Test and grammar. If you do not know what the Center Test is, and you teach in Japan, you need to learn. There is a myth that grammar is important to do well on the Center Test. This is wrong. Students only need to …
Jan 16
If you are teaching in Japan, you probably have heard of the Center Test. If you haven’t, and you are teaching anywhere in the education realm, you had better learn what it is and why it is important.The Center Test is the largest entrance exam taken in Japan. This year, it was given on Saturday …
Jan 01
I am teaching in Japan now at a high school. The classroom is each teachers temple, and teachers here are often left to their own devices. This can be great, but if you want to more than that “funny foreign person,” you need to succeed. To do that, you need to have goals and plans to achieve those goals. …