@article{oai:icu.repo.nii.ac.jp:00004457,
 author = {Kobayashi, Yoko},
 journal = {語学研究},
 month = {Jan},
 note = {From 2020, English will be taught as a subject to fifth and six grades of elementary
schools in Japan, and reading and writing will be introduced as well as speaking
and writing. The number of classes of English will be doubled. While there are
some merits in this reform such as connecting smoothly to English learning in
junior high schools or satisfying the capacity and needs of upper graders, there are
also some issues such as additional work on teachers who already have anxiety in
English teaching. This paper overviews this reform in English teaching of
elementary schools, reviews some previous studies about teacher anxiety in
elementary schools, and suggests use of picturebooks in teaching reading with
some examples. Although the paper does not propose any practical plans using
picturebooks, it provides insight about future English teaching in Japan.},
 pages = {55--64},
 title = {A Suggestion about English as a Subject in Elementary Schools: Teaching Reading with Picturebooks},
 volume = {32},
 year = {2018}
}