The Making of Monolingual 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 Making of Monolingual Japan write by Patrick Heinrich. This book was released on 2012. The Making of Monolingual Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Japan is regarded as a model case of successful language modernization. It is also often erroneously believed to be linguistically homogenous. This book explores the debates relating to language modernization from a language ideology perspective, and in doing so reveals the mechanisms by which language ideology undermines linguistic diversity.
The Making of Monolingual Japan
The Making of Monolingual 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 Making of Monolingual Japan write by Patrick Heinrich. This book was released on 2012-02-10. The Making of Monolingual Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Japan is widely regarded as a model case of successful language modernization, and it is often erroneously believed to be linguistically homogenous. There is a connection between these two views. As the first ever non-Western language to be modernized, Japanese language modernizers needed to convince the West that Japanese was just as good a language as the national languages of the West. The result was a fervent desire for linguistic uniformity. Today the legacy of modernist language ideology poses many problems to an internationalizing Japan. All indigenous minority languages are heading towards extinction, and this purposefully created homogeneity also affects the integration of immigrants and their languages. This book examines these issues from the perspective of language ideology, and in doing so the mechanisms by which language ideology undermines linguistic diversity are revealed.
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.
Japan's Built-in Lexicon of English-based Loanwords
Japan's Built-in Lexicon of English-based Loanwords - 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 Japan's Built-in Lexicon of English-based Loanwords write by Frank E Daulton. This book was released on 2008. Japan's Built-in Lexicon of English-based Loanwords available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a valuable contribution to SLA research. Apart from the obvious target of the book, SLA researchers and teachers anywhere in the world, it will be of particular interest to the Japanese community and to Westerners interested in Japanese language and culture. It is not easy to write a book appealing to audiences as disparate as this, but Daulton has managed to do this very well. He writes clearly and lucidly and makes good use of his teaching experience in Japan (Hakan Ringbom, Abo Akademi University). Japan offers a prime example of lexical borrowing which relates to language transfer in second and foreign language learning. The insights gained by examining language borrowing in Japan can be applied wherever language contact has occurred and foreign languages are learned.Many of the most important English vocabulary may already exist in native lexicons. This pioneering book examines Japanese lexical borrowing, clarifies the effect of cognates on foreign language acquisition, assesses Japanese cognates that correspond to high-frequency and academic English, and discusses using this resource in teaching. It includes extensive lists of loanword cognates.
Language Policy in Japan
Language Policy 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 Language Policy in Japan write by Nanette Gottlieb. This book was released on 2011-11-10. Language Policy in Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over the last thirty years, two social developments have occurred that have led to a need for change in language policy in Japan. One is the increase in the number of migrants needing opportunities to learn Japanese as a second language, the other is the influence of electronic technologies on the way Japanese is written. This book looks at the impact of these developments on linguistic behaviour and language management and policy, and at the role of language ideology in the way they have been addressed. Immigration-induced demographic changes confront long cherished notions of national monolingualism and technological advances in electronic text production have led to textual practices with ramifications for script use and for literacy in general. The book will be welcomed by researchers and professionals in language policy and management and by those working in Japanese Studies.
