Foreign Language Education in Japan : : Exploring Qualitative Approaches / / edited by Sachiko Horiguchi, Yuki Imoto, Gregory S. Poole.

• Superior document: Critical New Literacies: The Praxis of English Language Teaching and Learning (PELT)
• HerausgeberIn: Horiguchi, Sachiko.; Imoto, Yuki.; Poole, Gregory S.
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Language: English
• Series: Critical New Literacies: The Praxis of English Language Teaching and Learning (PELT)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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...

Table of Contents

• 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.