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Learning a Foreign Language as Leisure and Consumption: Enjoyment, Desire, and the Business of "Eikaiwa"
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Kubota, Ryuko – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2011
Social inclusion typically refers to the integration of the disadvantaged into the mainstream society as a national agenda. However, social inclusion in a broader sense addresses aspirations to be included in a global imagined community as well as a local community of like-minded people. Drawing on a qualitative study of men and women learning…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Native Speakers