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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Ideology, Agency, and Intercultural Communicative Competence
    sub title: A Stratified Look into EFL Education in Japan
  name:
    name part: Bouchard, Jeremie.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: si
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXIX, 368 p. 114 illus. online resource.
  abstract: 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 author not only shares valuable insights into how English is taught and learned in a stratum of the Japanese EFL system which has received limited attention from researchers over the years, but also clarifies the fundamental and complex changes currently taking place in the Japanese EFL landscape. This multi-faceted book also calls for greater consideration in postmodern ideology critique for the stratified nature of social processes as well as the material conditions and underlying generative mechanisms involved in the production and consumption of (including resistance to) ideological discourse. Accordingly, it outlines several challenges shaping ideology research in educational settings, and responds by developing a realist-oriented theoretical and methodological approach to address these challenges. This book serves as a unique point of reference for the study of parallel nationalist discourses embedded in foreign language education systems around the world.
  table of contents: 1 Exploring the Japanese EFL classroom -- 2 ICC, Nihonjinron and Native-Speakerism -- 3 Theoretical groundwork -- 4 Methodological groundwork -- 5 Nihonjinron, native-speakerism and recent MEXT policies on EFL education -- 6 Nihonjinron, native-speakerism and EFL classroom discourse and practice -- 7 Summary of research and implications for ICC education in JHS -- 8 Conclusion.
  note: by Jeremie Bouchard.
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Language and education
  subject:
    topic: Educational sociology
  subject:
    topic: Education and sociology
  subject:
    topic: Sociology, Educational
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Language Education
  subject:
    topic: Sociology of Education
  classification: LC8-6691
  classification: 407.1
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Intercultural Communication and Language Education
  identifier: 9789811039263
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3926-3
  record info:
    record creation date: 170330
    record change date: 20170330101747.0
    record identifier: 978-981-10-3926-3