Associated with an important epistemological shift from language proficiency to language criticality in applied linguistic research, this book provides a sociological perspective on foreign language education in Japan. By employing ethnographic methods to investigate the relationship between three core analytical elements - foreign language education geared towards the development of learners' intercultural communicative competence; nihonjinron and native-speakerism as potentially constraining ideological forces; and EFL practices observed at four Japanese junior high schools - the...
Associated with an important epistemological shift from language proficiency to language criticality in applied linguistic research, this book prov...
This book employs the realm of English Language Teaching (ELT) as a discursive point of departure to explore how individuals, groups, entities and institutions apprehend, embrace, deal with, manipulate, problematize and resist glocal flows of people, ideas, information, goods, and technology.
This book employs the realm of English Language Teaching (ELT) as a discursive point of departure to explore how individuals, groups, entities and ins...
This book probes for a post-native-speakerist future and explores the nature of (English and Japanese) native-speakerism in the Japanese context, and possible grounds on which language teachers could be employed if native-speakerism is rejected (i.e., what are the language teachers of the future expected to do, and be, in practice).
This book probes for a post-native-speakerist future and explores the nature of (English and Japanese) native-speakerism in the Japanese context, and ...
