The English Language Ability of New Student

Abstract

New students take a test of working knowledge in English every April, and we make sure to what extent they can understand English and how much they had studied it in spring vacation. Recently, we feel that it becomes more difficult to teach English and the English language ability of new students seems to be gradually decreasing. This year we had time to teach English grammar at the junior high school level, and we had made them review it for about two months. This paper reports how their English language ability has changed after the two-month instruction.