English as Medium of Instruction in Japanese Higher Education

Presumption, Mirage or Bluff?

AvGlenn Toh

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

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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Utgivningsdatum:2016-09-28
Mått:148 x 210 x 18 mm
Vikt:428 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:213
Upplaga:16001
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319397047

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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.

Innehållsförteckning

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.