The Struggle to Learn English : Beyond American and British English
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Please listen to this as an old woman’s rambling reminiscence. It happened more than thirty years ago. For someone like me, who had spent the years from the end of junior high school through high school in Britain, the Japanese university entrance examination system was an entirely unfamiliar world. What worried me most was hearing that the English used in entrance examinations was largely based on American English. Let me start with the examination itself. By the time I sat for the entrance examination at my second-choice university, I had already received a rejection from another university. I therefore attended a short summer course offered by a cram school, where I was taught things such as how to write academic essays in Japanese. There, I was told that, although it varied from university to university, American-style English was often used in entrance examinations. Then came the day of my second university entrance examination. ...