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Title: TEACHING ENGLISH IN JAPAN: Carolyn Biggs

Reference number: 12506

Date: 2015

Director: d. Yushin Toda

Production company: Japan Desk Scotland

Sound: sound

Original format: unknown

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 21.14 mins

Description: An interview with a teacher who worked in Japan for three years about her experiences of Japanese culture, language and teaching.ASIA; ED

Credits: p. Fumi Nakabachi and Yushin Toda, Japan Desk Scotland
comm. w. Yushin Toda
ph. Fumi Nakabachi
ed. Yushin Toda

Shotlist: Filmmaker's synopsis:

Carolyn Biggs worked in Japan for three years, firstly as an Assistant Language Teacher of English (ALT) at a primary school and two junior high schools, and secondly at a company dispatching ALTs to schools. She talks about challenges of teaching English in Japan. For example, she observes that a Japanese letter has two sounds, with a vowel sound always following a consonant sound. How did she manage to teach English sounds in Japan? She also talks about challenges of being in a class as an ALT, together with a Japanese teacher of English. How did she handle a situation when a Japanese teacher makes mistakes? She also talks about her life outside the classroom, and lots of happy memories.

Interviewee:
Carolyn Biggs