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Ng, Chin Leong Patrick – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2016
In April 2011, the Ministry of Education in Japan formally introduced Primary School English (PSE) language teaching in Japanese elementary schools. The PSE policy made it mandatory for fourth- and fifth-graders to attend English lessons once a week. Using the theoretical framework on why educational language plans fail [Kaplan, R. B., Baldauf, R.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Educational Policy