English as Medium of Instruction in Japanese Higher Education

Presumption, Mirage or Bluff?

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
XI, 213 Seiten
2016 | 1st ed. 2016
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-39704-7 (ISBN)

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English as Medium of Instruction in Japanese Higher Education - Glenn Toh
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This book sets out to uncover and discuss the curricular, pedagogical as well as cultural-political issues relating to ideological contradictions inherent in the adoption of English as medium of instruction in Japanese education. Situating the Japanese adoption of EMI in contradicting discourses of outward globalization and inward Japaneseness, the book critiques the current trend, in which EMI merely serves as an ornamental and promotional function rather than a robust educational intervention. 

Glenn Toh is an independent researcher who has, for thirty years, taught English in high schools and tertiary institutions as well as lectured on TESL/TEFL teacher training programmes in Australia, Brunei, Laos, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand and Japan.  He holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Australia, and maintains a keen interest in developments in language, discourse, ideology and power relations.

Introduction.- Chapter 1: Workplace narrative.- Chapter 2: Social and political challenges.- Chapter 3: Power and Ideology.- Chapter 4: Academic Knowledge and Meaning Making.- Chapter 5: Positioning EMI in Japan in the context of critical applied linguistics.- Chapter 6: Narrow and Particularised Understandings of English.- Chapter 7: EMI and EAP at crisis point.- Chapter 8: Reasons for the failure of EMI and EAP.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo XI, 213 p.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt Schulbuch / Wörterbuch Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Germanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Schlagworte academic literacies • Applied Linguistics • critical language awareness • Critical pedagogy • English • English for Academic Purposes • Japanese • language education • language policy in Japan • Literacy • Social Sciences
ISBN-10 3-319-39704-4 / 3319397044
ISBN-13 978-3-319-39704-7 / 9783319397047
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