Ideology, Agency, and Intercultural Communicative Competence A Stratified Look into EFL Education in Japan /

• Main Author: Bouchard, Jeremie (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Intercultural Communication and Language Education,
• Subjects: Education.; Language and education.; Educational sociology.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Language Education.; Sociology of Education.

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 c...

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.