ELEMENTARY ENGLISH

Are schools ready for English?

Worried teachers fear they lack sufficient training, confidence

By TAKAHIRO FUKADA

Staff writer

Come April, English classed will become mandatory for fifth- and sixth-graders, but a 29-year-old elementary school teacher in Tokyo has heard the concerns of her overwhelmed colleagues, especially the older ones, who have neither taught the language nor studied it since their university years decades ago.  Read More