Plurilingual Education in a Monolingualised Nation

Exploring New Frontiers in Language Teaching in Japan

AvDaniel Roy Pearce

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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This book explores alternative approaches to foreign language education in a context which is traditionally dominated by English-only approaches, and widely viewed as highly monolingual. It examines the grassroots classroom practices of teachers and their assistants involved in plurilingual education in the first longitudinal research of its type in the Japanese context. These practices are grounded in depictions of the practitioners’ personal and professional trajectories through explorations of their visual linguistic autobiographies. The holistic ethnography thus deepens understanding of plurilingualism in a hitherto underexplored context, and should be of interest to students and researchers of language teaching, teacher training, language policy, sociolinguistics and plurilingualism.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-12-20
Mått:156 x 234 x 14 mm
Vikt:520 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Perspectives on Language and Education
Antal sidor:230
Förlag:Multilingual Matters
ISBN:9781800417694

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Daniel Roy Pearce is a lecturer and teacher trainer in the Faculty of Education, Shitennoji University, Japan. His current research interests include interdisciplinary plurilingual education, teacher collaboration, and plurilingualism and linguistic diversity within primarily monolingual contexts.

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This book presents illuminating cases of practitioners promoting grassroots plurilingual education even in a context traditionally portrayed as being monolingual. Analyzing rich multimodal data, Pearce successfully helps readers see a more diverse reality of the country than is commonly believed and offers educational possibilities that can be explored outside the context as well.

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AcknowledgementsDanièle Moore: ForewordIntroduction: Monolingualism and JapanPart 1. Monolingualism Colliding with PlurilingualismChapter 1. Foreign Language Education and Plurilingualism: Global and Local Trends Chapter 2. Multimodal Polyethnography in Language Teaching ResearchChapter 3. Situating the Author: 'Wearing Both Pairs of Shoes' Part 2. Plurilingual Practices and PerspectivesChapter 4. From English-Only to Plurilingual Education: Yuki-sensei’s JourneyChapter 5. Making the Classroom Multilingual: Yuki-sensei’s Practice Chapter 6. A 'Monolingual' Foreign Language Teacher: Kana-sensei's Initiative Chapter 7. Pedagogies of Resistance, Peace Learning and Plurilingualism: Kana-sensei's Practice Part 3. Plurilingual PotentialsChapter 8. Imported Diversity? Plurilingual Assistant Language TeachersChapter 9. Beyond Native-Speakerism: ALTs as more than English ModelsConclusion: Implications for Teacher Training across Contexts AppendicesReferences