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Jdorie
28 Feb 2020
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1. Considering the status quo with regard to the contemporary educational milieu of our archipelago country in the Far East
2. has been serving a pivotal role as the lingua franca. A myriad of people from a multitude of backgrounds mingle with one another on a day-to-day basis using it as their primary means of communication.
3. far removed from decent→ severely lacking.
4. in Japan. In which the primacy of rote memorization of a slew of grammatical rules that are hardly ever made use of in everyday conversations
5. Hence, in a bid to nourish the English appetite of youngsters
6. so as not to allow the economic status of students' caregivers to overwhelmingly affect the quality of education young ones
7. in which essentially money talks, and also to fend off further exacerbation
8. sp→silver spoon in their mouths
I agree with what you wrote. I work in the education system now. The biggest issue is that teachers are managing students more than educating. They are more concerned about them passing the test even if the test can be pointed out to be flawed. The biggest misconception is that grammar rules are actual rules and not heuristics. They are guidelines that work most of the time but not always. They want overarching rule sets, like a grand unified theory, that make it easy for them to do their job. But the fact is a language, any language, is a collection of specific subrules that interact in various and sometimes seemingly conflicting ways.
Add to that, that Japanese and English are so conceptually different that the heuristics often don't work well, because the Japanese students are making assumptions about the underlying expressions that aren't true in English.
For example, the most ignored, yet essential concept is that of agency. That action flows from an agent into the world in English. I do, He has, It is, etc... it is even more important to understanding how we express something like passive voice, where the subject changes but the agent does not (often called semantic subject).
This is a foreign concept in Japanese. There are of course doers, or agents, in Japanese but they are not essential to expressing events in the world.
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