November 22,

Tsushi:

Problems and prospects of English Education in Elementary School

Big change: Foreign language activities will move to Grades 3 and 4 and reading and writing will be added to grades 5 and 6.

Title: A New Curriculum for English as a Subject

1. Introduction
   1. Rationale = reason
   2. Background:
      • Change in the New Course of Study
      • Issues
      • Student and school needs
2. Literature review
   1. Teaching young learners
      • Appropriate instruction for children of different ages.
   2. Designing curricula (Objectives,
   3. Course of Study
3. Methodology
   1. Design a curriculum outline based on 1, 2, and 3 in the literature review.
4. Findings
   • Presenting and describing your curriculum
5. Discussion
   • Issues with carrying out the curriculum.
   • How to enable schools to carry out the curriculum.
6. Conclusion

For objectives, reference the CEFR Descriptors

Sakuranbo showed her questionnaire

Junior found material from this page to use for a reading test: https://breakingnewsenglish.com/

He is going to test

• Language competence
  • Organizational competence
    • Textual competence
    • Grammatical competence
  • Pragmatic competence
    • Illocutionary competence: Understanding irony and the purpose of speech acts.
    • Sociolinguistic competence: cultural background

Junior to do:

To do

• start writing up your introduction, literature review, and methodology (Finish 12/6)
• make the test (12/6)
• plan when and whom to conduct it on
  • ETM 2 volunteers
  • ETM Advanced volunteers
  • Senior student volunteers
• do the test (12/8 and 12/15)