Foreign Language Education in Japan Exploring Qualitative Approaches /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Horiguchi, Sachiko (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Imoto, Yuki (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Poole, Gregory S. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2015.
• Σειρά: Critical New Literacies: The Praxis of English Language Teaching and Learning (Pelt)
• Θέματα: Education.; Education, general.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.