What Happens When Language Studies Become Exam-Oriented?

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English with Jennifer


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What happens is that in Japan, as IĀ  understand, it junior high school studentsĀ Ā 
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are really enjoying their English classes.Ā  They don't have a lot of, uh, exam pressure,Ā Ā 
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um, to get into university yet. But once they getĀ  to high school, English becomes exam-oriented,Ā Ā 
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and so they focus on test preparation. And I thinkĀ  they lose their motivation, or there's a tendencyĀ Ā 
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for students to lose their motivation becauseĀ  they're only studying for exams. Not only that,Ā Ā 
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not always, but in many cases, the exams here atĀ  Japanese universities are extremely difficult,Ā Ā 
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and they kind of aim way above the levelĀ  of the students, and so what happens isĀ Ā 
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they end up studying really difficultĀ  vocabulary words in preparation forĀ Ā 
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those exams. They're not getting the highĀ  frequency vocabulary that they need first.
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