Overview
- Presents the case for looking critically at ingrown and ingrained practices in English Language Teaching (ELT)
- Uncovers the obscured practices, undisclosed agendas and financially and ideologically motivated (inter)actions of various actors in ELT situations
- Includes a case study of the establishment of an English as a Lingua Franca programme at a Japanese university
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“This book artfully unpacks how English language education in Japan both shapes and reflects the sociohistorical perpetuation of essentialized and idealized Japaneseness and Otherness (imagined as idealized nativeness in English) within Japanese society, resulting in the ignoring and/or active suppression of: a) Japan’s history as a place of diversity and hybridity, as well as b) the complexity of negotiated identity and interaction occurring in and beyond Japan. Despite the formidable challenges named, the author endeavors to pave a dialogic path towards transformative change within Japan and (language) education therein, as well as in settings around the globe.” (Associate Professor Nathanael Rudolph, Mukogawa Women's University, Japan)
“This fresh and incisive book provides readers with a fantastically articulated look at the principles, practices and powers that maintain the status quo of foreign language education within Japanese Higher Education. As a critical reader with 20 years’ teaching experience in Japan, this book still proved to be an entertaining and thoroughly poignant eye-opener as to what lies beneath.” (Professor Damian J. Rivers, Future University Hakodate, Japan)Authors and Affiliations
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Book Title: Effecting Change in English Language Teaching
Book Subtitle: Exposing Collaborators and Culprits in Japan
Authors: Glenn Toh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15261-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-15260-4Published: 14 May 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-15261-1Published: 02 May 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 236
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Language Education, Language Teaching, Multilingualism, English