The Role of English Teaching in Modern Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Role of English Teaching in Modern Japan write by Mieko Yamada. This book was released on 2014-09-25. The Role of English Teaching in Modern Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Role of English Teaching in Modern Japan examines the complex nature of Japan’s promotion of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). In globalized societies where people with different native languages communicate through English, multicultural and multilinguistic interactions are widely created. This book takes the opportunity to look at Japan and examines how these multiple realities have affected its English language teaching within the domestic context. The myth of Japan’s racial and ethnic homogeneity may hinder many Japanese in recognizing realities of its own minority groups such as Ainu, Zainichi Koreans, and Brazilian Japanese, who are in the same EFL classrooms. Acknowledging a variety of English uses and users in Japan, this book emphasizes the influence of Japan’s recent domestic diversity on its EFL curriculum and urges that such changes should be addressed. It suggests new directions for incorporating multicultural perspectives in order to develop English language education in Japan and other Asian contexts where English is often taught as a foreign language. Chapters include: Social, cultural, and political background of Japan’s EFL education Race, ethnicity, and multiculturalism Representations of diversity in Japanese EFL Textbooks Perceptions of English learning and diversity in Japan The role of EFL education in multicultural Japan
The Evolution of English Language Learners in Japan
The Evolution of English Language Learners in Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Evolution of English Language Learners in Japan write by Yoko Kobayashi. This book was released on 2018-01-19. The Evolution of English Language Learners in Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book seeks a better understanding of the sociocultural and ideological factors that influence English study in Japan and study-abroad contexts such as university-bound high schools, female-dominant English classes at college, ESL schools in Canada, and private or university-affiliated ESL programs in Singapore and Malaysia. The discussion is based not only on data garnered from Japanese EFL learners and Japanese/overseas educators but also on official English language policies and commercial magazine discourses about English study for Japanese people. The book addresses seemingly incompatible themes that are either entrenched in or beyond Japan’s EFL context such as: Japan’s decades-long poorly-performing English education vs. its equally long-lived status as an economic power; Japanese English learners’ preference for native English speakers/norms in at-home Japanese EFL contexts vs. their friendship with other Asian students in western study-abroad contexts; Japanese female students’ dream of using English to further their careers vs. Japanese working women’s English study for self-enrichment; Japanese society’s obsession with globalization through English study vs. the Japanese economy sustained by monolingual Japanese businessmen; Japanese business magazines’ frequent cover issues on global business English study vs. Japanese working women’s magazines’ less frequent and markedly feminized discourses about English study.
English Language Teaching
English Language Teaching - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook English Language Teaching write by Veronika Makarova. This book was released on 2004. English Language Teaching available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Teaching English at Japanese Universities
Teaching English at Japanese Universities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Teaching English at Japanese Universities write by Paul Wadden. This book was released on 2018-10-26. Teaching English at Japanese Universities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Written by leading English-language educators in Japan, this Handbook provides an in-depth guide for the new generation of teachers at Japanese universities. In clear, accessible prose, it offers practical and detailed advice on effective classroom pedagogy, student motivation, learning styles, classroom culture, national language policy, career opportunities, departmental politics, administrative mindset, and institutional identity. Its four sections—The setting, The courses, The classroom, and The workplace—examine issues faced by university language teachers as well as challenges confronted by the increasing number of scholars teaching English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) and Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) courses. Firmly grounded in contemporary teaching method and theory, the Handbook’s 23 chapters also acknowledge the influence of diverse movements such as World Englishes, global issues, gender, and positive psychology. Its three appendices contain information on organizations, books, journals, and websites particularly useful for Japanese university educators; explanation of types and rankings of schools; ways to learn more about individual institutions for job-hunting; and detailed information on the structure (and Japanese titles) of faculty and non-teaching staff at the typical university. This Handbook is an invaluable resource for anyone teaching, or aspiring to teach, at a Japanese university.
English in Japan. Language policies in Education
English in Japan. Language policies in Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook English in Japan. Language policies in Education write by Elena Agathokleous. This book was released on 2021-03-18. English in Japan. Language policies in Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Essay from the year 2019 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: A, , language: English, abstract: The paper deals with the English language in Japan, specifically language policies in education. English has become the language through which the citizens of the globalized community of our world communicate and collaborate. The ability for a person to be able to use the English language to communicate with others is now more important than ever even in countries like Japan which in the past had no significant amount of tourists or immigrants and a rather local mentality of businesses so there was no great need for these people to be proficient in English.
