Asking students to dissect the motivations of a character in a book is doing more than teaching them about plot and characterization. This exercise also helps students learn to see different ...

YOKOHAMA--Teacher Yumiko Imanishi wrestled with the fact that some students form a negative view of English after entering high school. With this in mind, she embarked on a project to foster more ...

The number of elementary and junior high schools in Japan teaching classes in foreign languages, mostly English, has soared in the past five years. Experts say more parents want their children to ...