Smith’s School of English Ikoma Students Notice Effects of Shadowing I often teach my students the great effect shadowing has on their English learning. In fact we often do shadowing right in class. I’m lucky because I have a big class downstairs and there’s a big room. I use it to teach kids a lot. […]
Question Techniques for Better Conversation
I tend to separate language learning into 2 broad categories: language acquisition and communication abilities. Language acquisition generally follows a progression: vocabulary input, structure development, rules of syntax. Communication ability development tends to be less clear. Since 2007 I have been helping students at my small English conversation school in Otsu to develop overall communication […]
Learning about Japanese style sweets
Hi, this is Peter from the Yamashina branch of Smiths English Schools. I have been living in Japan for around thirty years and have enjoyed teaching English at Smiths in Yamashina for more than twenty years. During this time I have taught many different kinds of students at my school. A question which often comes […]
