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country, nor did they presently have any opportunity to practice English for communicative purposes outside of a school setting. The survey showed that 49.44% of the participants did not get to practice their speaking skills at an individual level. Moreover, as mentioned in the above section about prescriptivism in the Chinese syllabus, there is a very strong focus on test-taking. As such, students are not particularly interested in the workings and communicative aspects of English as a language, but instead are more interested in how their knowledge in English will transfer onto test papers. As such, the focus of English teaching is removed from speaking skills and is instead focused on growing the skills required for written tests. As a result, 94% of students found that the compulsory oral courses were not of use in their future careers. The evident lack of spoken opportunities for English, coupled with no motivation to master English as a language, it is no wonder the spoken proficiency of English in China is generally poor.

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actually cope with. This is further fuelled by the insufficient training of Japanese English teachers because they usually do not have a strong enough command of English to be able to understand the passage without translations. As a result of this Yakudoku, English lessons in Japan are almost fully conducted Japanese; including grammatical explanations. The only exception is during reading exercises. As such, students do not have any English speaking opportunities in class except for when they repeat after the teacher during reading aloud exercises. This therefore has negatively impacted the speaking ability of Japanese students of the English Language, resulting in the development of Mute English.

547:"Mute English" students may display limited pragmatic English knowledge with a highly restricted repertoire of language learning strategies. Schools mainly employ the traditional ‘grammar-translation’ and ‘examination-oriented’ method that does not take into consideration pragmatics. This ends up reducing English- learning students into ‘mute’ and ‘deaf’ language learners. Students may lack the pragmatic knowledge on the ways to interpret discourse by relating utterances to their meanings, understanding the intention of a speaker, and the way the English language is used in different settings In order to correct Mute English, the approach to teaching English have to transition from 277:

escalated testing in English. All possible forms of test-taking in China, from elementary school through to university, emphasises on accuracy. These examinations focus on written grammar and vocabulary, neglecting listening and speaking. These tests have been highlighted to affect student's prospective job opportunities and whether or not they can graduate. As such, there is immense pressure from the student to perform during these tests which deviates their focus from English mastery, to just being able to score during examinations. As a result, despite years of formal education in English, the vast majority of these students are unable to express themselves in English.

530:, so that their children can enter top-class universities. The English syllabus in Korea is no exception. Centered mainly around the entrance exams, English lessons leave little to no room for oral skills. This is because the entrance exam only assesses a student’s reading and listening comprehension abilities. If they do poorly on the English section, it greatly reduces a Korean student’s chance of getting into a top university, which continues encouraging them to only focus on what is tested. This therefore perpetuates the Mute English issue because the focus on entrance exams would mean less opportunities to develop speech skills in the classroom. 423:" has other forms of tests for students at higher levels, but they are all done voluntarily. These tests are considered to be one of the most accurate ways to measure English-language proficiency in Japan and affects employment and further education opportunities. As a result, many government and private institutions have used this test as an objective means of measuring a student's English language abilities. Furthermore, these tests are canonically harder than the actual level of English of the examinees which encourages students to study English as a "requirement" rather than as a means of communication. Additionally, despite the " 509:

significantly raised students’ resistance to class participation, contributing to poor spoken English due to lack of practice. In fact, in a survey conducted by Jeon in 2009, it was found that the greatest stress that teachers experience while teaching English, is the number of students. With a smaller class, teachers can make the lessons more communicative and interactive, which helps to mitigate the effects of Mute English . Presently, Korea is trying to cut their class sizes down to 24 by 2022, but until that happens, Mute English will continue to be a significant issue in Korea.

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fifth most reasons for stress. In general, the teachers felt that the school sanctioned materials for English lessons were neither practical nor interesting. As such, teachers feel the need to produce their own materials to better help their students understand lessons. However, teachers have no time and have no access to supporting material. As such, without improved quality in educational materials, students still continue to have to make do with whatever is given, stagnating their English learning progress.

366:(EFL), there is therefore a gap in teaching methodology when it comes to communicative teaching. Moreover, teachers do not have sufficient practical experience when it comes to actually teaching in classrooms, hence they tend to mimic the way that they were taught when they were students. Additionally, in-service teaching training is available for current English teachers, but it is clear that at a national level, it is inconsistently conducted. This is due to the different legislatures from 681:(early study abroad) is the educational and linguistic investment that many Korean families take part in, in order to achieve good English standards - a native-like fluency and accent. Families would migrate with the intention of submersion in an English monolingual environment among native speakers to access better quality of English education in an English-speaking environment to hone the child's English fluency skills from young. 438:

potential opportunities, office workers voluntarily or involuntarily take up offline or online English classes as well. However, there seems to be no noticeable improvement in South Koreans’ communicative competence in English despite efforts and pressure in attaining it. It was noted in 2009 that South Koreans ranked 136th out of 161 nations in speaking skills, with points falling below average in the internet-based test (iBT) of

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the way through in Chinese, only using English to read passages or exercises. Only one teacher used English most of the time and used Chinese only when trying to explain a difficult point to the students to better facilitate their understanding. Furthermore, all informal conversations between student and teacher are held in Chinese. 90% of the teachers observed used a

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instructions and a restructuring of English teaching licensure, but they are still largely considered to be monolingual. However, the issue of Mute English is still incredibly prevalent in Korea. In this section, like the other countries, it will be covering some of the issues in teaching and policies that could have led to the spread of Mute English.

201:, potentially train competent and multi-talented candidates for the new century, and to further improve the overall quality of higher education in China. Today, millions of Chinese take English proficiency tests every year to secure employment or professional promotion in lines of work that do not necessarily require substantial or any use of English. 125:". There is little to no emphasis on developing speaking abilities of the students under the system. As a result, Mute English speakers struggle with piecing together basic sentences despite having gone through roughly eight years’ worth of formal English education. Their pronunciation is typically described as "choppy" with a "robotic inflection". 290:. The situation of years of training not translating into an ability to interact with native English speakers beyond surface level causes some dissatisfaction among English teachers and students. On the flip side, in preparing the students for what is required in the entrance exams, the English education is considered more than successful. 349:. However, its severe lack of practical application has caused the proliferation of Mute English in the country. Despite the continued efforts, it has even been discovered that Japan's level of English has even decreased. Hence, this section will explore some of the pedagogical and policy mistakes that have resulted in this phenomenon. 214:

allocate 30 minutes of speaking practice once every two to three weeks. However, a big factor that contributes to the rise of Mute English is the teaching pedagogy of Chinese teachers of the English language. This section will cover some of the major mistakes that teachers make in the classroom or within the Chinese education system.

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speakers of English in China or even teachers who managed to achieve a native-like fluency in the language. As a result, these teachers struggled to explain basic grammar rules or vocabulary in English. The initial lack of native English speakers in China was due to several deep-seated political sentiments that China had towards the

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in the 1950s, there is a rising demand for English and is currently being taught as the mandatory foreign language at secondary schools. Recognised as a vital tool of competition in society, proficiency in English is required to enter a competitive school, to get a prestigious job, and to be promoted

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There are fundamental issues with Japan's qualifications of a teacher. Firstly, a Japanese student can obtain a teaching certificate from any public or private university so long as they fulfil the required amount of credits. Hence, candidates can potentially gain a teaching certificate in English at

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In June 2011, a survey on "Hierarchical Teaching" was conducted by the writer and her colleagues in Leshan Normal University. It was between 18 and 20-year-old students who had eight years worth of English education in local Chinese schools. None of these students had ever been to an English-speaking

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in English-speaking countries. Study abroad results in a substantial amount of money leaving the country. The English villages are intended to reduce this loss, and make the immersion experience accessible to students from low-income families as well. However, many questions remain as to whether the

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English class hours of elementary school students will increase by one hour per week to improve their English abilities. Students in the third and fourth grades go through 2 hours of English lesson per week, while fifth- and sixth-graders go through 3 hours of English lessons per week. The increased

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English classes will deviate from the norm of being taught in Japanese, with new reforms mandating the language of teaching English to be English itself as a basic rule. In 1994, Oral Communication, a subject consisting of three courses: listening, speaking and discussion/debate, was introduced as a

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In the late 1990s, English listening tests in the entrance examinations were introduced, and later revised to be less grammar-focused and towards a more communicative approach in 1994. This created an increasing competition for English learning and proficiency in order to be academically, thereafter

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has laid down for all middle and high school students to study a foreign language, where in most cases English is the foreign language chosen. The teaching of English in schools is primarily aimed at preparing students for college entrance examinations, where it can be seen to have a crucial role as

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In a 2011 study conducted by Yuru Shen, she observed 15 teachers for a month. She noticed that 80% of the teachers used both English and Chinese in their lessons by first speaking in English then translating the instruction or learning material into Chinese. Another 13% of teachers just lectured all

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As such, English is seen to have a vital role in national and personal development and has a spreading acceptance in the country as the language of prestige, social progress, cultural refinement, and economic development, in which English proficiency is emphasised to be one of the most important and

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The English village concept is to be expanded in the near future as financially it has not been a complete failure. The government will begin to use money for projects like this in the future in addition to sending students on scholarships overseas, despite spending money on short term construction

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Korea has a strong test-taking culture to the point that they are even known as "exam hell". Annually, South Koreans spend $ 752 million on additional support to take English proficiency tests and they are globally regarded as the largest market to take the TOEFL. Furthermore, there is a phenomenon

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which inadvertently taught students instead to be able to translate things from Chinese to English. This then does not strengthen the students’ foundation or mastery in the language and the main focus of learning English then becomes the mastery of grammar via translation. Consequently, students do

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In a 2009 study by Jeon, she wanted to see what were some of the stresses that English teachers in Korea faced. She found that at every level of education (elementary, middle and high school), teachers ranked supplementing interesting and additional materials for their students were the fourth and

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The need for native speakers in English is very important because it helps to foster good pronunciation and communicative habits when speaking the language. Furthermore, learners will have a clear point of reference and could potentially mimic the speaker's pronunciation. There are not many native

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Under the new post cultural revolution Chinese leadership, a large pool of English-proficient personnel was deemed to be required for China in securing its access to global scientific and technological advances in propelling towards modernisation. This resulted in a venture to expand the provision

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is the most popular teaching methodology of any foreign language in Japan. It stresses the word-by-word translation of English to Japanese. This method is commonly applied to long reading passages because government-approved English texts are usually of higher difficulty than what the student can

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English Second Language classes which rarely have more than 20 students per class . As a result, this has fostered a hierarchical student-teacher relationship so that the teacher can better manage the class. Despite South Korea adapting a communicative style of teaching, the large class size has

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Amongst these three countries, South Korea first began introducing English into their elementary school curriculum in 1997. In fact, the South Korean government has expressed plans to turn English into the second official language of the country. This would mean plans to implement English-medium

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As mentioned in the above section of lack of communicative opportunities, part of the problem is the test-taking culture in China. As the need for English grew rapidly, companies started to vy for communicatively competent students, putting pressure on schools to produce such talents. This then

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A widespread use of English in street signs, brand and government policy names, entertainment, beauty and fashion industries and academia today reflects the positive attitude towards the language. Other ways of usage include borrowing, compounding or deriving of English words, alongside mixing

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From elementary school to high school, South Korean students spend about 730 hours on English classes at school alongside private tutoring and cram schools, online English classes and even going abroad to improve their English. With the ability of English communicative competence in bringing

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China employs the use of Foreign English Teachers, fluent in speaking English, to teach English lessons. They primarily work in private language schools or public schools in China, teaching around 20–25 hours a week, with an additional 10–12 hours on average for lesson planning and grading

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English-speaking Korean staff. They are intended to help students face the particular challenges of speaking English in the Korean context. Many families seek to improve their children's English ability by sending them to several expensive after-school programs and by sending them to

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agreed that there was too much use of Chinese during English lessons which could have affected their overall mastery of the language. Therefore, when Chinese is overused in the classroom it undermines a student's ability to learn English in its communicative or expressive form.

345:, but they have consistently included English education in their syllabus. The Japanese study English for 3 years in junior high school, 3 years in high school and at least another 2 years at university, yet until 1999, they have averaged less than 500 for the 313:, English language education in Japan started in 1854 and opened up to the West. The popularity of English in Japan today is largely due to Japan's prospering economy, the increased need for foreign language skills and proficiency brought about by 171:, it has not translated into good English proficiency, with many fresh graduates complaining that they were unable to carry out simple communicative functions since the late 1980s even after years of studying English, resulting in ‘mute english’. 689: 358:

a university without a full-time English faculty. As a result, most prospective teachers do not have in-depth training in the English language, most of these classes they take are literature or linguistics. With only 3% of teachers majoring in

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to their education and as a result may not be too receptive to the teaching methodology of native English speakers in explaining rules. These two factors have greatly affected Chinese students’ ability to acquire English as a second language.

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developed and officially accredited the National English Competence Assessment Test from 2010 onwards, assessing all four skills of listening, reading, speaking and writing. There are three levels aimed to achieve different goals, namely:

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applicants exceeded 2.07 million in South Korea. Deemed as "a lifelong project for individual excellence", English has become a necessity for Koreans and associated with one's aspirations in enhancing their worth in a competitive society.

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subject and implemented across many high schools. This allows the high school students to place emphasis on the practical usage of the English language, rather than learning the English language for academic achievements only.

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and improve the quality of English learning teaching since the 1970s, through a series of reforms carried out in areas such as curriculum development, syllabus design, textbook production, teacher training and pedagogy.

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to prefecture and the presence of privatised Japanese high schools of which these trainings are not available to. As a result, the English education in Japan has suffered due to insufficient practical training.

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Mute English occurs primarily due to an emphasis on literacy, grammar, and correctness in language education. Efforts to mitigate Mute English in China have resulted in numerous commercial products including

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assessments The Foreign English Teachers are certified with TEFL, where the first-time foreign teachers would have to receive 20 hours of ideology training on the Chinese constitution and regulations.

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such as /ɛ/ versus /æ/, because these sounds do not exist in their language, so they often have trouble differentiating and pronouncing words that only differ by a minimal pair (i.e. "bet" and "bat").

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not properly learn how to express themselves and instead mistakenly believe that the study of English is the study of translation between English and Chinese. Moreover, 64% of English majors at

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will study the language for 70 hours a year to achieve the goal of reading, writing, comprehending and speaking English properly with a vocabulary estimated to be around 600 to 700 words.

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