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English as Medium of Instruction in Japanese Higher Education: Presumption, Mirage or Bluff? de Glenn Toh

English as Medium of Instruction in Japanese Higher Education: Presumption, Mirage or Bluff?

Autor Glenn Toh
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 iun 2018
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. 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783319819464
ISBN-10: 3319819461
Pagini: 213
Ilustrații: XI, 213 p.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Ediția:Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

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.

Notă biografică

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.

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This book addresses the question of why Japanese universities would be offering courses taught in English instead of their longstanding use of Japanese as the language of instruction and academic inquiry.  Through an ideological deconstruction of the cultural-politics of such a move, it becomes apparent that what is advertised on university websites may not stand to close scrutiny or be as substantial as might be assumed. The author provides an analysis of power laden political and ideological challenges as they apply to the current surge of English-medium courses at Japanese universities and unveils the underlying presence of conceptual and systemic contradictions that appear to accompany this relatively novel and perplexing phenomenon. Written from the perspective of an insider in Japanese higher education, the book offers incisive perceptions as well as startling revelations of a system that is obliged to adapt to challenges that come with the low birth rate and the rapidly encroaching forces of globalization.

Caracteristici

Provides a deconstruction, discussion, and critically-oriented critique of tertiary English as a Medium of Instruction and English for Academic Purposes in Japan Discusses the interaction of fluidly local and global discourses of identity, globalization and education Explores the complex and dynamic socio-historical negotiation of “Japaneseness” and “Otherness” in Japanese society