Perhaps the most popular job among Westerners living in Japan is Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) at a public school.
Anyone who has worked as an ALT before could likely write a book on their observations of Japanese students and all the crazy things they say (or, as is often the case, don’t say) in and out of the classroom. But have you ever stopped to think about how your students are observing you?
A thread on Japanese message board site 2channel titled “Things that often happen in junior high school English” offers some humorous insight.

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