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Floris, Flora Debora – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2013
Masaki Oda is a Professor of Applied Linguistics at Tamagawa University in Tokyo, Japan, specializing in Sociopolitical Aspects of Language Use. Prof. Oda got his PhD program from Georgetown University, where he also taught Japanese for several years. He returned to Japan in 1990 and began teaching EFL and training EFL teachers at Tamagawa…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Nationals, English Teachers, Second Language Instruction
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Kubota, Ryuko – TESOL Quarterly, 1999
Questions the cultural labels attached to Japanese culture in much of applied linguistics research. Maintains that such labels are constructed by a colonial discourse that views the "other" as being what the West is not. Proposes a pedagogy of critical literacy that supports cultural pluralism while recognizing the benefits of an…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Applied Linguistics, Colonialism, Cultural Differences