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sur La France a encore une guerre de retard !


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skirlet 20 avril 2008 11:44

"Je n’ai jamais entendu personne en Asie se plaindre de l’anglais."

Comme si vous avez posé la question à tous les Asiatiques... et obtenu une réponse sincère :-P

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200606/200606220020.html

Korean Children Suffer English Fatigue Syndrome

Not so long ago, a 38-year-old mother got a call from her third-grade daughter’s instructor saying, "Your child seems distracted in class, please get her to pay attention." When the mother asked her child what had happened, the child said, "I want to kill English !" and burst into tears. Not being able to understand what the foreign instructor was saying, her daughter was simply stressed out by the quick pace of the class and her poor test results.

The English education market in Korea is a US$10 billion industry, but there is also a growing number of children who — sometimes violently — boycott English. They suffer from what is loosely diagnosed to as "English fatigue syndrome." In a survey of 359 mothers by the Chosun Ilbo together with online early-stage English community suksuk.com, almost half or 48.7 percent of respondents reported that their children had at times taken a profound aversion to the international language of business. If even among mothers who are relatively successful getting their children to learn English the number is about half, the syndrome may be much more virulent among the silent majority.

The symptoms are multifarious. Mothers report that their child tells lies when it is time to go to class such as, "I’m sick " or "The teacher hit me." Some yell and flail their arms about in the house, take a long time to complete even easy homework tasks, or erupt in screams of "Don’t speak English !"

The director of Shin’s Child and Adolescent Counseling Center, Shin Chul-hee, offers an analysis, “The common denominator causing these symptoms is forced study, and excessive private study,” adding,“Children who attend schools that focus on workbooks rather than learning through play and give too much homework show the highest levels of rejection.”

In the survey, 38.9 percent of mothers described the reason behind their child’s English education boycott as being due to a method demanding excessive study, while 23.4 percent identified a “dislike of English itself,” while 20 percent admitted the reason was parents’ excessive expectations of their children, including comparing them with other children.
 


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