A study of English language teacher education for young learners in Japan : Developing new strategies

我们进行了一次问卷调查，重点调查了教师对自己培训需求的看法。这项调查访问了日本各地公立小学的418名教师。教师被要求确定满足他们在课堂上的需要的英语能力水平。影响他们回答的因素包括：他们对自己的英语水平的自我认知；对小学英语教学目标的不同看法；以及教学模式的不同。此外，对Eigo Note的教师手册进行了仔细的分析，以确定其语言特点。

We conducted a questionnaire survey focusing on the teachers' own perceptions of their training needs. The survey involved 418 teachers in state primary schools across Japan. The teachers were asked to identify the levels of English ability required to meet their needs in the classroom. The factors influencing their responses included : their self-perceptions of their own English proficiency levels ; different views of the objectives of English Language Teaching at primary school ; and variations in the mode of delivering the teaching. In addition the teachers' manuals for Eigo Note have been closely analyzed to identify their linguistic characteristics.