You Can Speak English But Can You Teach It

English as a second language is taught in many countries, yet many teachers are still teaching a form of English that they themselves would not use. They blind themselves to the fact that what they are teaching foreign students is bad English. Having discovered this fact in many countries, author Maud Robertson Ramsay Nomiyama found the epitome of it in Japan. She says, "When I first reached Japan, I was fearful of the people, and this was mostly due to the aggressive and offensive English spoken by most of the English-speaking Japanese, including the teachers. When I discovered that the foreign teachers employed by the Japanese schools were promoting this type of English, I felt the need to write the book." She previously wrote the book My Doll for primary school students studying English as a second language. "My daughter has a degree in economics from a Japanese university and a master's degree in education (TOEFL majoring in bilingualism), and yet when she explained to people that what they were trying to teach was not, in fact, a correct form of English, she was ignored because that English was written in the book. A book, any book, in English was viewed as a holy grail by people, highly qualified people, who should have known better. I decided that we needed to have it in a book." Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Maud Robertson Ramsay Nomiyama now lives in Osaka, Japan with her Japanese husband. She is a qualified primary school teacher with a Diploma of College of Education (DCE), taught for eight years, and then returned to college to take an Associateship in Education (ACE). Publisher's website: http: //sbprabooks.com/MaudRobertsonRamsayNomiyama Author's website: http: //sin-cos-group.com