Foreign language education in Japan : exploring qualitative approaches / edited by Sachiko Horiguchi, Yuki Imoto and Gregory S. Poole ; foreword by Ryuko Kubota.
2015
P57.J3
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Title
Foreign language education in Japan : exploring qualitative approaches / edited by Sachiko Horiguchi, Yuki Imoto and Gregory S. Poole ; foreword by Ryuko Kubota.
ISBN
9789463003254 (electronic bk.)
9463003258 (electronic bk.)
9463003231
9789463003230
9789463003230
9789463003247
9463003258 (electronic bk.)
9463003231
9789463003230
9789463003230
9789463003247
Published
Rotterdam : SensePublishers, 2015.
Copyright
©2015
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xii, 192 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-94-6300-325-4 doi
Call Number
P57.J3
System Control No.
(OCoLC)933759702
Summary
Language education is a highly contested arena within any nation and one that arouses an array of sentiments and identity conflicts. What languages, or what varieties of a language, are to be taught and learned, and how? By whom, for whom, for what purposes and in what contexts? Such questions concern not only policy makers but also teachers, parents, students, as well as businesspeople, politicians, and other social actors. For Japan, a nation state with ideologies of national identity strongly tied to language, these issues have long been of particular concern. This volume presents the cacophony of voices in the field of language education in contemporary Japan, with its focus on English language education. It explores the complex and intricate relationships between the ℓ́ℓlocalℓ́ℓ and the ℓ́ℓglobal, ℓ́ℓ and more specifically the links between the levels of policy, educational institutions, classrooms, and the individual. In the much-contested field of foreign language teaching in Japan, this book takes the reader directly to the places that really matter. With the help of expert guides in the fields of anthropology, sociology and linguistics, we are invited to join a vital discussion about the potentially revolutionary implications of the Japanese governmentℓ́ℓs policy of teaching Japanese citizens to not only passively engage with written English texts but to actually use English as a means of global communication.ℓ́ℓ ℓ́ℓ Robert Aspinall, PhD (Oxford), Professor, Faculty of Economics, Department of Social Systems, Shiga University, Japan This insightful book about language education involves different disciplines using ethnographic methods. Both ℓ́ℓnativeℓ́ℓ and ℓ́ℓnon-nativeℓ́ℓ speakers of Japanese (or English) collaboratively examine two different types of qualitative approaches in Japan ℓ́ℓ the positivistic and the processual. This is a must-have book for researchers and educators of language who are interested in not only Japan but also language education generally.ℓ́ℓ ℓ́ℓ Shinji Sato, PhD (Columbia), Director of the Japanese Language Program, Department of East Asian Studies, Princeton University, USA.
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Includes index.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Homeland Education in a New Home: Japanese Government Policy and Its Local Implementation in a Weekend Japanese Language School in the United States
Identity, Place, and Language: Conflict and Negotiation in the Writing of an English Textbook for Japanese Secondary School Students
Stuck in between: English Language Environment for International Students and Skilled Foreign Workers in Japan
Bringing a European Language Policy into a Japanese Educational Institution: The Contested Field of Institutional Foreign-Language Education Reform
Effecting the "Local" by Invoking the "Global": State Educational Policy and English Language Immersion Education in Japan
Cultures of Learning in Japanese EFL Classrooms: Student and Teacher Expectations
Two Classes, Two Pronunciations: A Postmodern Understanding of Power in EFL Students' Classroom Performance
Willingness to Communicate: The Effect of Conference Participation on Students' L2 Apprehension
An Internship in Communicative English Teaching
Afterword
Appendix: Discussion Questions
About the Authors
Index.
Preface
Introduction
Homeland Education in a New Home: Japanese Government Policy and Its Local Implementation in a Weekend Japanese Language School in the United States
Identity, Place, and Language: Conflict and Negotiation in the Writing of an English Textbook for Japanese Secondary School Students
Stuck in between: English Language Environment for International Students and Skilled Foreign Workers in Japan
Bringing a European Language Policy into a Japanese Educational Institution: The Contested Field of Institutional Foreign-Language Education Reform
Effecting the "Local" by Invoking the "Global": State Educational Policy and English Language Immersion Education in Japan
Cultures of Learning in Japanese EFL Classrooms: Student and Teacher Expectations
Two Classes, Two Pronunciations: A Postmodern Understanding of Power in EFL Students' Classroom Performance
Willingness to Communicate: The Effect of Conference Participation on Students' L2 Apprehension
An Internship in Communicative English Teaching
Afterword
Appendix: Discussion Questions
About the Authors
Index.
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text file PDF
Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 6, 2016).
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Critical new literacies ; volume 3.
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Print version: Foreign language education in Japan : exploring qualitative approaches. Rotterdam, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] ; Taipei, [Taiwan] : Sense Publishers, ©2015 xi, 191 pages Critical New Literacies: The Praxis of English Language Teaching and Learning (PELT) ; Volume 3
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