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This book examines the ways in which English is conceptualised as a global language in Japan, and considers how the resultant language ideologies – drawn in part from universal discourses; in part from context-specific trends in social history – inform the relationships that people in Japan have towards the language. The book analyses the specific nature of the language’s symbolic meaning in Japan, and how this meaning is expressed and negotiated in society. It also discusses how the ideologies of English that exist in Japan might have implications for the more general concept of ‘English as a global language’. To this end it considers the question of what constitutes a ‘global’ language, and how, if at all, a balance can be struck between the universal and the historically-contingent when it comes to formulating a theory of English within the world.
English language --- English philology --- Second language acquisition. --- Germanic philology --- Germanic languages --- Second language learning --- Language acquisition --- Study and teaching --- Japanese speakers. --- Globalization. --- Second language acquisition --- Globalization --- Study and teaching&delete& --- Japanese speakers --- J5492.31 --- Japan: Language -- other languages -- European -- United Kingdom, Great Britain, England, English --- English as a global language. --- English in Japan. --- English. --- Global English. --- Global language. --- Japan. --- Language ideologies . --- Sociolinguistics. --- World Englishes.
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This book examines the perspectives and experiences of student teachers who are in the process of becoming secondary school English teachers in Japan. It reports on the trainee teachers’ attitudes towards theory and practice in their professional development. Through a discussion of what professional expertise should look like in this context, the book identifies the challenges faced by the Initial Teacher Education (ITE) system in Japan, and suggests support and mediational activities that should be included as components of the ITE curriculum. The book contains valuable rich descriptions of trainee teachers’ experiences, and will be of interest to those working in EFL both in Japan and elsewhere.
English language --- English teachers, Training of --- Germanic languages --- Study and teaching (Secondary) --- Japanese speakers. --- Japanese English teachers. --- initial teacher education. --- professional development. --- qualitative research. --- reflective practices. --- teaching English as a foreign language. --- teaching English in Japan. --- Japanese language --- English teachers --- Language teachers --- Literature teachers --- Training of
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