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Compulsory "Foreign Language Activities" in Japanese Primary Schools
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Hashimoto, Kayoko – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2011
From 2011, the new curriculum for introducing English to Japanese primary schools will be fully implemented in the form of "foreign language activities". This innovation forms part of the government's plan to cultivate "Japanese with English abilities", a development based on the awareness, particularly in the business sector,…
Descriptors: Junior High Schools, Language Planning, Second Language Learning, Discourse Analysis
Lexicogrammar in the International Construction Industry: A Corpus-Based Case Study of Japanese-Hong-Kongese On-Site Interactions in English
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Handford, Michael; Matous, Petr – English for Specific Purposes, 2011
The purpose of this research is to identify and interpret statistically significant lexicogrammatical items that are used in on-site spoken communication in the international construction industry, initially through comparisons with reference corpora of everyday spoken and business language. Several data sources, including audio and video…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Discourse Analysis, Case Studies, Verbal Communication
A General Agreement on Higher Education: GATS, Globalization, and Imperialism
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Collins, Christopher S. – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2007
Through successive rounds of negotiations, the World Trade Organization (WTO) encourages countries to commit their higher education system to the mandates of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). The WTO is an organization committed to the aggressive trade liberalization of services like higher education. This ideology, known as…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Global Approach, Ideology, Discourse Analysis