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Studying English Both in the ASEAN Region and the West: Japanese Multiple Sojourners' Self-Identity, Privilege, and Global Isolation
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Kobayashi, Yoko – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
Many people involved in international education, including students and parents, engage in a stepping-stone discourse that identifies English-medium learning in non-Western countries as a preparatory stage for postsecondary education in Western destinations, with the ultimate goal to secure competitive employment. The present study examines how…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, International Education
Global English Capital and the Domestic Economy: The Case of Japan from the 1970s to early 2012
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Kobayashi, Yoko – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2013
The present study explores how scholars working in the field of applied linguistics, language policy and language education might best contest and negotiate the increasingly economics-driven language polices enacted at the institutional levels of schools and workplaces. The study focuses on Japan as an interesting case of incongruence between…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Applied Linguistics