Concerning the English Note

[DanAkitaPA]

An ALT in Akita was asked to translate the lesson/unit summaries for the Teachers' English Notebook series Guide.

I've found it helpful as I have been asked to present a lot of these topics over the last few months.

http://akitajet.com/wiki/index.php?title=Translation_of_Teacher%27s_5th_Year_Eigo_Note_Guide

http://akitajet.com/wiki/index.php?title=Translation_of_Teacher%27s_6th_Year_Eigo_Note_Guide

The more ideas and content related to the English Notebook specifically the better.

For an outline of the key phrases taught, click the link below.
http://akitajet.com/wiki/index.php?title=Eigo_Notebook

If you have any useful links to activities that work well with the series or information regarding any new developments as the transition period takes place, please post them here.

Good Things,

Dan

[patrick]

Have you read through them and made sure they are accurate? If so, would you mind if I swiped them for Englipedia? I would give credit where credit is due.

[DanAkitaPA]

Hey Patrick,

I will look further into your question later this week. The BOE that had the JET do the translation has been pretty serious about Elementary English for the last 4 years. I am out of the office for the next few days but I will call them when I get back on Friday.

Good Things,

Dan

[DanAkitaPA]

I did a bit more research into the topic Patrick, and I might actually not recommend these translations for a site like yours.

It turns out this is only a translation of the opening summaries of each lesson and unit. The actual manual is much more thorough.

I personally think this summary is good for giving someone who doesn't read Japanese very well, a decent idea of the general goals that MEXT has for these texts.

Esstentially these books are meant to stress/foster 'intercultural understanding' and 'communicative skills'.

In other words students are to use English as a tool for communication and not as a way to gain literacy.

[patrick]

Thanks for getting back to me on that, Dan. And, thanks for your comments.

I'm still battling with the idea of creating a Eigo Noto pages for Englipedia because I would almost feel like a sellout cuz' I don't agree with these textbooks. But, people have been emailing about it, so I figured I'd do some ground research, just in case I do go ahead with such a project, I can hit the ground running.

Hopefully, Eigo Noto peeps will have the foresight to translate the final edition of these books...hopefully.

[jjwillhelp]

Thank you for the great info. you actually helped me out a lot with my question.