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Foreign language education in Japan : exploring qualitative approaches /

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 conce...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Horiguchi, Sachiko (Editor ), Imoto, Yuki, 1981- (Editor ), Poole, Gregory S. (Gregory Scott), 1963- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rotterdam : SensePublishers, 2015.
Colección:Critical new literacies ; volume 3.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.