Navigating English Policy and Practice in Japan’s Primary Schools (eBook)

Peter Ferguson (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
263 Seiten
Channel View Publications (Verlag)
978-1-83668-153-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This book investigates recent changes in language education policy and the implementation of English as a foreign language (EFL) in Japan's public elementary schools. Through interviews with policymakers, school principals and elementary school teachers, it examines the challenges in creating, transmitting and applying this new language policy. It reveals not only the contents of language policy documents, but the political and socioeconomic rationale for introducing EFL into Japan's national curriculum. This book will aid understanding of various macro-level discourses, such as progressive and conservative views of schooling in Japan and how globalization has affected attitudes toward English education. It will be of interest to researchers in language policy and planning, second language acquisition, second language teacher education and Japanese studies.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.9.2025
• Reihe/Serie: Early Language Learning in School Contexts
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Grundschule
• Schlagworte: curriculum development • EFL • elementary schools • English as a foreign language • English education • Japan • Japan’s national curriculum • Language education policy • Language Planning and Policy • policymaking • primary education • primary schools • teacher training
• ISBN-10: 1-83668-153-4 / 1836681534
• ISBN-13: 978-1-83668-153-3 / 9781836681533