troublesome
もう読まれたことと思いますが，まだの人のために取り上げておきます。結論部のtroublesomeという訳が気になります。これはご本人に確かめないとよくわかりませんが，生徒たちが「面倒くさい」と考えているのか，それとも「大変だ」「やっかいだ」と考えているのか，この英語ではわかりにくいと感じました。troublesomeの原義はdifficult to deal withなので，後者だとは思いますが...（GP）
Students: English useful, but not for me
The Yomiuri Shimbun
Seventy percent of middle school students think English ability would be useful for obtaining a job in the future, but only 11 percent want to get a job that requires English, according to an education ministry institute survey.
The survey, conducted by the Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry's National Institute for Educational Policy Research in November, covered 3,225 third-year middle school students nationwide.
Eighty-five percent said they think, "It is important to study English" or "It is rather important."
To the question "Do you think studying English will be useful to get a job you want in the future?" 36 percent responded, "I think so," and 34 percent answered, "I generally think so." The 70 percent who responded affirmatively marks a 23 percentage point increase from the previous survey in 2003.
Asked how they felt about English, 22 percent responded, "I like English" and 30 percent chose "I like English" when asked to choose between "like" and "dislike."
Only 11 percent responded they strongly hope to get a job that requires English skills, down six percentage points from the previous survey.
In contrast, 43 percent answered, "I don't want to get a job that requires English skills," up from 36 percent in the previous survey.
Kenji Miyauchi, head of the research and development section at the institute's Curriculum Research Center, said, "[Students] are keenly aware of the importance of English in this age of globalization, but at the same time, they don't seem to want to study English or they think it's troublesome to do so."
(Jan. 29, 2012)
