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開催日：2016年10月16日（日曜日）

 9時半～12時半（３時間の集中）
　　　　　( 9時15分に会場・受付）

 会　場：王子北とぴあ　

 　　　＊王子駅すぐ隣の高層ビル　研修室　８F　806

　　王子駅北口徒歩３分 （JR京浜東北線、東京メトロ南北線）

参加費： 3,000円（税込）／1人当たり

講　師：　Julian Israel　

概要：
話題の記事を読み、生の英語で講師の話を聞き、用語を理解した後で、コメントする初中級向けの参加型クラスです。自己紹介スピーチの練習も含む3時間授業です。事前に受講者の皆様へテキストを配布し、あらかじめ準備頂けるように致しますので安心して参加でき、効果も上がります。生の英語に慣れることで、英語力に自信がつき、自ら発表できるようになります。  

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今回は日本人が海外へ行って経験するカルチャーショックを改めて見直します。
  日本は如何に特有な国か、カルチャーショックを受けずに帰国する方は果たしてどれ程いるのでしょうか。
 興味深いJapan Times の記事を取り上げて学習します。読み合わせ、質疑・応答、そして意見交換を含んだ楽しい英会話教室となります。
　海外文化に対する疑問や愚痴は講師ジュリアンに遠慮なくぶっつけて、反応を楽しんでみてください。　事前に記事を一読して頂ければ、効果的な学習でき楽しめます。

◇記事の冒頭◇

”Tracing the emotional roller-coaster ride of life abroad”
　-Surveys of Japanese students in the U.S. pick out the peaks and troughs of living overseas-　by Patrick Parr

“Why do you go away?
 So that you can come back.
 So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too.
 Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” — writer Terry Pratchett

This month, thousands of Japanese students will begin the often life-changing journey of studying abroad, hoping to have an experience like no other. According to the Institute of International Education’s Project Atlas, there are around 65,000 Japanese students studying overseas in any given year.

A quarter of these students (24 percent) choose the United States as their destination. Of course, that could have a lot to do with pre-established relationships between universities and agencies, but the point is that many Japanese students are experiencing American culture, and, consequently, experiencing the sensation of leaving behind their home country.

In the last five years, I’ve been fortunate enough to have taught hundreds of Japanese students studying abroad in the state of Washington. I wanted to dig a bit deeper into why exactly they chose to leave the comforts of Japan for another country. To do this I created a survey, and received over 60 results from students whose age range was between 19 and 40.

Choosing to live abroad is no small decision. I’m sure the majority of people reading this have at least exercised this concept hundreds of times in their minds. Many other readers are probably experiencing it right now. Still, I thought I would show a standard graph used quite commonly in American universities to illustrate the emotional ups and downs of living abroad (on right).

How long a student experiences each category varies case by case. For example, in the surveys I received from students who had lived in the U.S. for only one or two months, many of them expressed more of a fascination with the culture — an innocence, I guess you could say — than other “long-termers.” Below are a few representative quotes from surveys by students going through these stages.

1.Honeymoon
• “Dogs and cats can get on buses.”
• “(I can have) small talk with unknown person.”
• “Blue-colored food … (we don’t have blue food in Japan).”
• “People are friendly and open-minded compared with Japan.”
From my experience, the honeymoon could even be called “the calm before the storm,” since it is followed by the titanic disappointment of culture shock.

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