The Neo-Liberal Notion of Global Language Skills vs. Monolingual Corporate Culture: Co-Existence or Rivalry?

Autor/in	Kobayashi, Yoko
Titel	The Neo-Liberal Notion of Global Language Skills vs. Monolingual Corporate Culture: Co-Existence or Rivalry?
Quelle	In: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 39 (2018) 8, S.729-739 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Kobayashi, Yoko)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0143-4632
DOI	10.1080/01434632.2018.1438445
Schlagwörter	Study Abroad; Personnel Selection; Social Differences; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Applied Linguistics; Corporations; Foreign Countries; Second Language Instruction; Employment Opportunities; Student Mobility; Cross Cultural Studies; Language Skills; Skilled Workers; Unskilled Workers; Language Teachers; Gender Differences; Gender Discrimination; Females; Family Work Relationship; Monolingualism; Neoliberalism; Japanese; Overseas Employment; Employment Qualifications; South Korea + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Studies abroad; Auslandsstudium; Personalauswahl; Personalentscheidung; Sozialer Unterschied; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Linguistics; Linguistik; Angewandte Linguistik; Unternehmen; Ausland; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Berufschance; Beschäftigungschance; Student; Students; Mobility; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Mobilität; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Facharbeiter; Unskilled worker; Hilfsarbeiter; Language teacher; Sprachunterricht; Geschlechterkonflikt; Weibliches Geschlecht; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Japaner; Japanisch; Auslandstätigkeit; Employment qualification; Vocational qualification; Vocational qualifications; Berufliche Qualifikation; Korea; Republik
Abstract	Stimulated by studies on South Korean students' early and later-on study abroad and Japanese companies' practice of hiring monolingual college students, the present literature-based discussion advances the knowledge of commonalities and distinctiveness between the two nations that manifest in either a textbook-case or a non-linear relationship between people's investment in English study during schooling and their marketability in the real world. For example, while equally known for their nationwide 'education/English craze' and global economies, the two East Asian neighbours differ significantly in their upper/middle-class citizens' (non)practice of overseas educational migration and leading companies' (non)hiring of overseas-educated youth with language skills. The discussion begs future research questions as to (1) the coexistence between neo-liberal discourse about global talents' career success and the pervasiveness of social inequalities (e.g. gender discrimination at work); (2) the location of applied linguistics researchers and L2 practitioners in social institutions that (are pressured to) balance the neo-liberalism-driven production of global human resources and the transmission of the dominant values of social inequalities; (3) the potentiality of scholarly discussion that entails little or no definition of (non)professional, (un)skilled workers with(out) global language skills. (As Provided).
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