Opening up the world for Tohoku
students
The Ashinaga
Junior English Camp is an international English education program taking place
in the Philippines for elementary- and middle-school-age students from the
Tohoku region, which was affected by natural disaster in 2011. English
proficiency is a key skill in today’s globalized world, yet Japanese students
still lag far behind many other highly developed countries. This is partly due
to a lack of exposure to English speakers, and English education in Japan being
heavily focused on grammar and reading comprehension instead of speaking and
communication.
The Ashinaga
Junior English Camp seeks to change this paradigm by sending young, orphaned
students from Tohoku to the Philippines for a 10-day intensive English and
cultural exchange program. The Philippines is a budding destination for
learning English as a second language and provides students a setting in which
to use practical English. The goals of the program are multifold: to create an
opportunity for children to practice English in a social setting, to think of
English as fun and exciting, to give them self-confidence, and to inspire them
to continue improving their English skills after they return home. A successful
pilot program was run in March 2015 and a subsequent program began in March 2016.
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