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

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. 

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

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. 

Product details

• Authors: Glenn Toh
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2018
• EAN: 9783319819464
• ISBN: 978-3-31-981946-4
• No. of pages: 213
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 12 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 303 g
• Illustrations: XI, 213 p.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies; B, Linguistics, English, Germanische und Skandinavische Sprachen, Literacy, English Language, Japanese, Ost- und Südostasiatische Sprachen, Social Sciences, Applied Linguistics, Language: reference & general, Language Education, Language teaching and learning, Language and education, Language teaching & learning, East and Southeast Asian languages, Japanese language