Global English Capital and the Domestic Economy: The Case of Japan from the 1970s to early 2012

Autor/in	Kobayashi, Yoko
Titel	Global English Capital and the Domestic Economy: The Case of Japan from the 1970s to early 2012
Quelle	In: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 34 (2013) 1, S.1-13 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0143-4632
DOI	10.1080/01434632.2012.712134
Schlagwörter	English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Foreign Countries; Applied Linguistics; Language Planning; Males; Advantaged; Personal Narratives; Economic Progress; Second Language Instruction; History; Discourse Analysis; Global Approach; Japan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Ausland; Linguistics; Linguistik; Angewandte Linguistik; Sprachwechsel; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Erlebniserzählung; Economic growth; Wirtschaftswachstum; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Geschichte; Geschichtsdarstellung; Diskursanalyse; Globales Denken
Abstract	The present study explores how scholars working in the field of applied linguistics, language policy and language education might best contest and negotiate the increasingly economics-driven language polices enacted at the institutional levels of schools and workplaces. The study focuses on Japan as an interesting case of incongruence between world-class economic success and sub-standard English education from the 1970s to the early 2000s, followed by the current disjunction between the media discourse on Japan's search for global talent and the reality of many entities still favouring home-educated monolingual male elites. The study, based on primary data resources (e.g. economic statistics, industrialists' narratives, national "globalisation" policies, corporate English language policies), shows that Japanese society has been belying English teaching professionals' unverified expectation that global English capital would lead to personally and nationally rewarding outcomes. By addressing the overlooked relationship between language education and national growth, the study hopes to provide insight into the taken-for-granted discourse on global English capital and language professionals' future direction in the new era of the non-West. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10