The Ideology of Interculturality in Japanese Language-in-Education Policy

Autor/in	Liddicoat, Anthony J.
Titel	The Ideology of Interculturality in Japanese Language-in-Education Policy
Quelle	In: Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 30 (2007) 2, S.20 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0155-0640
DOI	10.2104/aral0720
Schlagwörter	Ideology; Intercultural Communication; Educational Policy; Second Language Instruction; Japanese; Nationalism; Identification; Cultural Pluralism; Foreign Countries + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ideologie; Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Japaner; Japanisch; Nationalismus; Identifikation; Identifizierung; Kulturpluralismus; Ausland
Abstract	Language learning is frequently justified as a vehicle for promoting intercultural communication and understanding, and language-in-education policies have increasingly come to reflect this preoccupation in their rhetoric. This paper will examine the ways in which concepts relating to interculturality are constructed in Japanese language policy documents. It will explore in particular the ways in which ideologies of nationalism and Japanese identity have an impact on understandings of the nature and purpose of interculturality and how these are developed discursively in Japanese language-in-education policy documents. Language policies construct a discourse of interculturality which focuses on the development of a nationalistic adherence to a particular conceptualisation of Japanese identity, which is unique, homogenous, and monolithic. These themes will be discussed in the contexts of Japanese policy documents relating to foreign language teaching and Japanese language spread. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10