According to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's summary of the results of an English education implementation status survey that examines the English proficiency of public junior high school and high school students, the number of junior and senior high school students who reach the government's target English proficiency is increasing, but it does not reach 50% of the target. It became clear that
The survey was conducted through 9,374 public junior high schools and 3,354 public high schools nationwide through prefectural and government-designated city boards of education. We examined junior high school students who have achieved Eiken Level 1 (equivalent to Eiken Level 3) and high school students who have reached the CEFR A2 level (equivalent to Eiken Level 2).
According to the report, junior high school students who achieved the CEFR A1 level increased by 1.9 points from the previous year to 42.6%, and high school students who achieved the CEFR A2 level increased by 0.9 points to 40.2%.Although the percentage of students who reach their goals is gradually increasing every year for both junior high school and high school students, they have not yet reached the government goals.
The highest number among junior high school students was 75.5% in Saitama City.Among high school students, 56.0% in Fukui Prefecture was the highest.On the other hand, there were some areas where issues remained, such as 30.0% of junior high school students in Hokkaido and 31.1% of high school students in Miyagi prefecture.The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has a policy of striving to improve the English proficiency of the entire country by laterally developing examples of areas where the target has been achieved.
