Blog Post 12

Matusda’s article is about how World English affects on writing. Teachers need to emphasize what is suitable for the context but also linguistic information that the students must know.  The article has guideline to teach WE in writing because it is so complicated to teach writing to some students. I think writing is very hard and most complicated. Some ELL students can write perfectly in writing but they are not fluent in other like speaking or listening.

Kubota’s article is about issues of globalization and she said that globalization has created the discourse of kokusaika in Japan. The discourse of kokusaika is focus teaching and learning a foreign language, especially English. In Japan, many schools favor teachers from America and Britain. My boyfriend wanted to teach in Japan after he graduated from ISU. He is fluent Japanese and lived in Japan for a year and he is American. He graduated with 3.8 G.P.A. However, he got denied two times for teaching in Japan because he wasn't qualified enough. He told me that it is very hard to teach English in Japan.

 It was very interesting to see that the “learning English is the understanding of the world and cultural diversity” (26) because English is international language. Japan is not the only country to emphasize learning English. However, it seems like many countries believe that fluent in English equals to succeed in life. I believe that it is important to speak more than one language. However, people shouldn’t force students to learn English. Many of my friends in Korea are so frustrated because of English. One of my friends came to United States to learn English, because he thought that he will get a job right away if he was fluent in English. However, when he went back to Korea, he didn’t because he graduated from a college that not many people know of. Then, he e-mailed me that how he regretted that he came to United States. Another thing that bothers me is that many countries believe that by bringing native speakers to the country, where English isn’t their first language, is not going to help the students. For example, Korean students will not be fluent in English because they will not use English as much as they use Korean. Therefore, the country needs to emphasize on how to teach English rather than hiring the native speakers because it doesn’t mean that they are capable of teaching the students well.  Also, what happens if English became not international language? I feel like many countries should emphasize on teaching their native language first and then teach English. The reason is that if a student isn’t fluent in their native language, they are not going to be fluent in their second language.