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Akiko Katayama – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Most L1 (first language) Japanese speakers in Japan seem to think that they are monolingual. While it appears that Japanese people accept monolingual-ness as normative in the nation, there is little situated understanding of what makes up this Japanese monolingual-ness. This study reports on repeated, long, and mostly unstructured interviews with…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Japanese, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Shirahata, Mai; Lahti, Malgorzata – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
Many universities in non-English speaking countries have been adopting English as a medium of instruction to internationalize their education. We set out to compare the language policies of a Finnish and a Japanese university using the lens of language ideology -- a set of normative beliefs about the social dimension of language. Data were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Language Planning, Educational Policy
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Rakhshandehroo, Mahboubeh; Ivanova, Polina – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2020
The adoption of English-medium instruction degree and non-degree programs in non-Anglophone universities has grown dramatically over the past 15 years. Japan is not an exception. In the Japanese context, a growing number of research works have addressed the implementation of English-medium degree programs at the undergraduate level; however,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction, Foreign Students
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Kato, Reiko; Kumagai, Yuri – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This study explores how Japanese EFL students engaged in translingual practices during a telecollaborative project that connected two college classrooms in the US and Japan. The project aimed at encouraging the students' creative uses of languages, promoting an appreciation for their multiple linguistic resources, and nurturing their sense of…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Hirata, Yoko; Thompson, Paul – ELT Journal, 2022
With the development of language corpora, linguists have been able to identify how often specific words, phrases, and expressions are used, and in which contexts. However, applications of corpora in the wider domain of language teaching have remained limited. This article presents an approach to utilizing corpora, combining principles from…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Teaching Methods, Action Research, Communicative Competence (Languages)
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Galloway, Nicola; Numajiri, Takuya; Rees, Nerys – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2020
In recent years, one of the most significant trends in higher education in non-anglophone countries has been the growth in English Medium Instruction (EMI). However, provision is rapidly outpacing empirical research. This study examined how macro-level education policy with regard to EMI is both implemented and conceptualised at the institutional…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Kobayashi, Yoko – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2021
Addressing the root cause of Japanese higher education problems, the present literature-based study explores Japanese higher education's power relationship with one of the most influential stakeholders, the business world. It first draws attention to the incongruity between the business enterprises' proclaimed struggle with the securement of human…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Kobayashi, Yoko – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
Stimulated by studies on South Korean students' early and later-on study abroad and Japanese companies' practice of hiring monolingual college students, the present literature-based discussion advances the knowledge of commonalities and distinctiveness between the two nations that manifest in either a textbook-case or a non-linear relationship…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Personnel Selection, Social Differences, English (Second Language)
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Kuwabara, Megumi; Son, Ji Y.; Smith, Linda B. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2011
A growing number of studies suggests cultural differences in the attention and evaluation of information in adults (Hedden, Ketay, Aron, Markus, & Gabrieli, 2008; Markus & Kitayama, 1991; Masuda & Nisbett, 2001). One cultural comparison, between Westerners, such as Americans, and Easterners, such as the Japanese, suggests that…
Descriptors: Cues, Nonverbal Communication, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences
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Rivers, Damian J. – Language Awareness, 2011
Within the Japanese English Language Teaching context and consistent with the dominant conversation role assigned to the native English speaker teacher, there exists a belief that the most effective manner in which to teach and promote multilingualism and intercultural understanding is through restricting students to monolingual practices and…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Second Language Learning, Ideology, Personal Autonomy
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Stephens, Meredith – Babel, 2010
Due to the global momentum of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), Anglophones may perceive that there is less urgency for them to learn other languages than for speakers of other languages to learn English. The monolingual expectations of English speakers are evidenced not only in Anglophone countries but also abroad. This study reports on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Oral Language, Asian Culture, English
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Gottlieb, Nanette – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2008
This monograph discusses the language situation in Japan, with an emphasis on language planning and policy. Japan has long considered itself to be a monoethnic and therefore monolingual society, despite the existence of substantial old-comer ethnic minorities, and this--with the instrumental exception of English--has been reflected in its language…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Official Languages, Monolingualism, Foreign Countries
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Kawashima, Michiko; Prideaux, Gary D. – Language Sciences, 1992
Examines the role of a "local cue"--the grammatical aspect expressed by the verb "ru/-ta"--in Japanese temporal clauses. Ninety-six children were examined. Results show that the success of verb forms as clues requires that temporal relations be clearly expressed. This supports the claim that overt surface clues facilitate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Japanese, Language Processing, Monolingualism
Takato, Michiyo – Educational Studies in Japan: International Yearbook, 2006
Much has been said about the difficulties that Latin American children of foreign Japanese descent (Nikkei) face in the Japanese school system since the implementation of Japan's new immigration law in 1990. The underlying monolingualism and cultural exclusion of the school system are often blamed for these difficulties. However, little detailed…
Descriptors: Credentials, Ethnicity, Monolingualism, Educational Change
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Tsuda, Sanae; Lafaye, Beverley Elsom – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2005
Language contact is traditionally associated with language communities having a long and close association with a second language--through an existing official language, or extensive use of the language spoken by past colonial rulers, or both. Japan neither falls directly into these categories, nor is it considered a country with a strong…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Official Languages, Multilingualism, Language Role