Why is English education in Japan so bad? Well you can go over to watch Nobita’s latest video where he consults JCE Gaijin Goomba and a porn star.

OR!

You could listen to someone who actually has qualifications and lives in Japan.

So what is wrong with the system? Quite a lot really. Let’s start with the awful training programs. Most of the foreigner-related English education is made up of for profit companies. These companies spend more time and budget on marketing rather than developing any kind of lessons or training. The staff they hire are under-qualified, undertrained and underpaid.

This staff is largely people who would endure anything just to live in Japan. They have little to no background in education, and learn everything from their trainers? So who are these trainers? Basically old staff. That’s right, you go from unqualified teacher to an unqualified trainer in a matter of years (or months).
The Dunning-Kruger effect is what convinces these trainers and teachers that they are in the right place, and that nothing suspicious is going on.
Training and advice within these companies and programs is made up of assumptions and passed along anecdotes. So essentially ALTs are using the same method of education as cavemen used to figure out how the sun and moon work.

We look at one such training seminar that a JET trainer was nice enough to leave unattended.

Make sure the safety bar is secured, it’s gonna be a real JET-coaster!