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09-01-2011, 03:59 AM
I believe the key to English in Japan is in the hands of the non-native English speaking teachers. Especially those who teach young children at home. Does anyone know how I can contact these teachers? Are there groups online? Or websites?
Japanese is OK. My wife can read it for me!!! Thanks 
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09-01-2011, 05:30 AM
True. It does make sense that for Japanese to learn English as foreign language, it is advisable to have a teacher who has passed the same difficulties, i.e. a non-native English speaker. The process for learning a foreign language is quite different from learning a mother language. I didn't get vocabulary homework at my native language lessons, and I never had to analyze paragraph structures or poetry at any of my foreign language lessons.
There are Little Angels in Mitaka, Tokyo.
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09-02-2011, 01:12 AM
Thank you acjama. That is only one reason I think non-native speakers are key. They are also very enthusiastic and enjoy what they are doing. Of course many native teachers are genki too, but most of them work in schools. I am looking for teachers who work from home. I know of two. They are Japanese moms and teach small groups (another reason they are successful) of young kids (important to get them before at pre-school age) at home. If I know two their must be hundreds or thousands of them in Japan. I am looking for a way to contact them.
Thanks again
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09-02-2011, 05:50 AM
You're welcome!
 The Japan Times article that hinted about the non-native teacher English school Little Angels also mentioned RareJobs.com that offer English lessons via Skype. Maybe you'll get forward from there.
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09-02-2011, 10:20 PM
Hmm, I suddenly have the urge to quote Shakespeare...
Depends on your priorities. Are they: 1) To fulfill your teenage life long dream (described in full detail here) of "living in Japan" by riding the demand that ignores the result and damns the rest? - Sure, c'mon in! 2) To actually teach somebody English in a way that in the end, that person can actually converse in English? - well, have you yourself learned a foreign language? If not, what insights can you give to a person whose starting efforts exceed your end results? How are your pedagogic studies going? Better to follow somebody's example than simply walk alone to a direction he's vaguely pointing to.
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09-03-2011, 02:43 AM
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09-04-2011, 11:47 AM
I am not saying native teachers are unnecessary. Most natives work in schools. by the time a kid is school age she has passed the stage of picking up English phonemes from natural native speech anyway. I am suggesting the teachers who work at home, with very young kids are giving the students a great head start. It is fun, not part of a full day of other studies, and in small groups.
these teachers can use audio-visual aids to get the correct pronunciation
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09-04-2011, 01:18 PM
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Most Native english speakers do a special course on teaching English as a foreign language. So if a person visits England-- are they to avoid all the locals and search for foreign teachers of ENGLISH? Its crackers to me.
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