03842nam 22005415 450 991025510550332120240627173604.09789811039263981103926710.1007/978-981-10-3926-3(CKB)3710000001127590(DE-He213)978-981-10-3926-3(MiAaPQ)EBC4833990(EXLCZ)99371000000112759020170330d2017 u| 0engurnn#008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierIdeology, Agency, and Intercultural Communicative Competence A Stratified Look into EFL Education in Japan /by Jeremie Bouchard1st ed. 2017.Singapore :Springer Nature Singapore :Imprint: Springer,2017.1 online resource (XXIX, 368 p. 114 illus.)Intercultural Communication and Language Education,2520-17439789811039256 9811039259 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.1 Exploring the Japanese EFL classroom -- 2 ICC, Nihonjinron and Native-Speakerism -- 3 Theoretical groundwork -- 4 Methodological groundwork -- 5 Nihonjinron, native-speakerism and recent MEXT policies on EFL education -- 6 Nihonjinron, native-speakerism and EFL classroom discourse and practice -- 7 Summary of research and implications for ICC education in JHS -- 8 Conclusion.Associated with an important epistemological shift from language proficiency to language criticality in applied linguistic research, this book provides a sociological perspective on foreign language education in Japan. By employing ethnographic methods to investigate the relationship between three core analytical elements – foreign language education geared towards the development of learners’ intercultural communicative competence; nihonjinron and native-speakerism as potentially constraining ideological forces; and EFL practices observed at four Japanese junior high schools – the author not only shares valuable insights into how English is taught and learned in a stratum of the Japanese EFL system which has received limited attention from researchers over the years, but also clarifies the fundamental and complex changes currently taking place in the Japanese EFL landscape. This multi-faceted book also calls for greater consideration in postmodern ideology critique for the stratified nature of social processes as well as the material conditions and underlying generative mechanisms involved in the production and consumption of (including resistance to) ideological discourse. Accordingly, it outlines several challenges shaping ideology research in educational settings, and responds by developing a realist-oriented theoretical and methodological approach to address these challenges. This book serves as a unique point of reference for the study of parallel nationalist discourses embedded in foreign language education systems around the world.Intercultural Communication and Language Education,2520-1743Language and languagesStudy and teachingEducational sociologyLanguage EducationSociology of EducationLanguage and languagesStudy and teaching.Educational sociology.Language Education.Sociology of Education.306.440952Bouchard Jeremieauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1064568MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910255105503321Ideology, Agency, and Intercultural Communicative Competence2538917UNINA