20 percent of Japanese junior high students score a zero on nationwide English writing test RocketNews24 | 2017-Feb-27
...Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology recently tested the English listening, speaking, and reading skills of roughly 60,000 third-year junior high students across Japan. When their scores for the three sections of the test were aggregated, only between 20 to 30 percent of the students were found to meet the English proficiency standards set by the ministry for junior high graduates...more...
