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Being and Becoming a Speaker of Japanese - Andrea Simon Maeda - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This autoethnographic account of the author’s Japanese as a second language learning trajectory is an important and unique addition to diary studies in SLA and applied linguistics qualitative research circles. In-depth ethnographic details and introspective commentary are skilfully interwoven throughout Simon-Maeda’s narrative of her experiences as an American expatriate who arrived in Japan in 1975 – the starting point of her being and becoming a speaker of Japanese. The book joins the recent surge in postmodernist, interdisciplinary approaches to examining language acquisition, and readers are presented with a highly convincing case for using autoethnography to better understand sociolinguistic complexities that are unamenable to quantification of isolated variables. The comprehensive literature review and wide ranging references provide a valuable source of information for researchers, educators, and graduate students concerned with current issues in SLA/applied linguistics, bi/multilingualism, and Japanese as a second language.

DKK 258.00

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Developing Interactional Competence in a Japanese Study Abroad Context - Naoko Taguchi - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

In the process of second language acquisition, the ability to interact effectively is critical. But what does it mean to be interactively competent? This book addresses this question by presenting research on the development of interactional competence among learners of Japanese as a second language. Qualitative data collected on learners studying abroad in Japan is evaluated to explain changes in their interactional competence and provides specific insights into the learning of Japanese. The situated analysis of multiple data sets generates meaningful interpretations of the development of interactional competence in the development of interactional competence and the learner-specific factors that shape developmental trajectories. Moreover, the context of the research provides insights into the types of learning resources and experiences that study abroad provides to assist learners’ in their progress towards becoming a competent speaker in the target community.

DKK 260.00

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Exploring Japanese University English Teachers' Professional Identity - Diane Hawley Nagatomo - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This book contributes to the growing field of EFL teacher identity, which is now recognized to influence numerous aspects of classroom teaching and of student learning. It focuses on an under-researched, and yet highly influential group of teachers that shape English language education in Japan: Japanese university English teachers. In three interrelated narrative studies, it examines how four relatively new teachers develop professional identity as they become members of the community of practice of university English teachers; how gender impacts the professional identity of seven female professors ranging in age from their early 30s to their 60s; and how one teacher’s teaching practices and beliefs reflect her personal and professional identity.

DKK 257.00

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Japan's Built-in Lexicon of English-based Loanwords - Frank E. Daulton - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Throughout the world, the mother tongue fundamentally affects second language acquisition. Japanese contains thousands of loanwords, many based on the most useful types of English vocabulary. This book examines gairaigo -- Western loanwords in Japanese -- and its effect on L2 English acquisition. The first part introduces Japanese lexical borrowing. The second part resolves the “paradox of cognates” and clarifies the effect of gairaigo on English acquisition. The third part assesses the loanword cognates in Japanese that correspond to high-frequency and academic English. The fourth part focuses on barriers to utilizing this L1 resource. The epilogue presents general principles and suggestions for using gairaigo in teaching, and the appendix features useful lists of English/Japanese cognates. There are important pedagogic implications for wherever language contact has occurred.

DKK 946.00

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Tourism in Japan - Arthur Asa Berger - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This book deals with tourism, popular culture and everyday life in Japan. It offers some interesting statistics about Japanese life and society, discusses popular kinds of tours in Japan, considers images of Japan found in guidebooks about the country, and discusses the pleasures people get from travel in Japan. The book interprets various aspects of Japanese culture and provides an analysis of popular visitor destinations. It is written in an accessible style and thus will be of interest to tourists considering visiting Japan, Japanophiles, social scientists and humanities scholars with interests in Japan, and students taking courses in tourism, Japanese culture, cultural studies and consumer culture.

DKK 257.00

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Socializing Identities through Speech Style - Haruko Minegishi Cook - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Drawing on the perspective of language socialization and a theory of indexicality, this book explores ways in which learners of Japanese as a foreign language and their Japanese host families socialize their identities through style shift between the masu and plain forms in a homestay context. Going beyond the usual assumption that the masu form is a polite speech marker, the book analyzes the masu form as an index of various social identities and activities. The book discusses both socialization through speech styles and socialization to use an appropriate speech style. Qualitative analysis of dinnertime conversations demonstrates how learners are implicitly and explicitly socialized into the norms of style shift in Japanese in interaction with their host family members.

DKK 258.00

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Language Learning, Gender and Desire - Kimie Takahashi - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

For many Japanese women, the English language has never been just another school subject. For them, English is the tool of identity transformation and the means of obtaining what they passionately desire – mobility, the West and its masculinity. Language Learning, Gender and Desire explores Japanese women''s passion for learning English and how they negotiate identity and desire in the terrain of racial, sexual and linguistic politics. Drawing on ethnographic data and popular media texts, the book offers new insights into the multidirectionality of desire and power in the context of second language learning.

DKK 257.00

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The Making of Monolingual Japan - Patrick Heinrich - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Japan is widely regarded as a model case of successful language modernization, and it is often erroneously believed to be linguistically homogenous. There is a connection between these two views. As the first ever non-Western language to be modernized, Japanese language modernizers needed to convince the West that Japanese was just as good a language as the national languages of the West. The result was a fervent desire for linguistic uniformity. Today the legacy of modernist language ideology poses many problems to an internationalizing Japan. All indigenous minority languages are heading towards extinction, and this purposefully created homogeneity also affects the integration of immigrants and their languages. This book examines these issues from the perspective of language ideology, and in doing so the mechanisms by which language ideology undermines linguistic diversity are revealed.

DKK 1052.00

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The Making of Monolingual Japan - Patrick Heinrich - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Japan is widely regarded as a model case of successful language modernization, and it is often erroneously believed to be linguistically homogenous. There is a connection between these two views. As the first ever non-Western language to be modernized, Japanese language modernizers needed to convince the West that Japanese was just as good a language as the national languages of the West. The result was a fervent desire for linguistic uniformity. Today the legacy of modernist language ideology poses many problems to an internationalizing Japan. All indigenous minority languages are heading towards extinction, and this purposefully created homogeneity also affects the integration of immigrants and their languages. This book examines these issues from the perspective of language ideology, and in doing so the mechanisms by which language ideology undermines linguistic diversity are revealed.

DKK 310.00

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Hybrid Identities and Adolescent Girls - Laurel D. Kamada - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This is the first in-depth examination of “half-Japanese” girls in Japan focusing on ethnic, gendered and embodied ‘hybrid’ identities. Challenging the myth of Japan as a single-race society, these girls are seen struggling to positively manoeuvre themselves and negotiate their identities into positions of contestation and control over marginalizing discourses which disempower them as ‘others’ within Japanese society as they begin to mature. Paradoxically, at other times, within more empowering alternative discourses of ethnicity, they also enjoy and celebrate cultural, symbolic, social and linguistic capital which they discursively create for themselves as they come to terms with their constructed identities of “Japaneseness”, “whiteness” and “halfness/doubleness”. This book has a colourful storyline throughout - narrated in the girls’ own voices - that follows them out of childhood and into the rapid physical and emotional growth years of early adolescence.

DKK 258.00

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Native-Speakerism in Japan - - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The relative status of native and non-native speaker language teachers within educational institutions has long been an issue worldwide but until recently, the voices of teachers articulating their own concerns have been rare. Existing work has tended to focus upon the position of non-native teachers and their struggle against unfavourable comparisons with their native-speaker counterparts. However, more recently, native-speaker language teachers have also been placed in the academic spotlight as interest grows in language-based forms of prejudice such as ‘native-speakerism’ – a dominant ideology prevalent within the Japanese context of English language education. This innovative volume explores wide-ranging issues related to native-speakerism as it manifests itself in the Japanese and Italian educational contexts to show how native-speaker teachers can also be the targets of multifarious forms of prejudice and discrimination in the workplace.

DKK 310.00

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A Tale of Two Schools - Richard Donato - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This volume documents a sixteen-year longitudinal study of two elementary schools in which Spanish and Japanese foreign language programs were implemented and evaluated. Evaluation of the programs involved documenting children’s language development, assessing the attitudes of various constituents, and examining critical issues related to the introduction and successful operation of a well articulated sequential foreign language program in schools. The volume concludes with a discussion of possible reasons why over time certain sequential foreign language programs flourish and grow while other programs are reduced or eliminated from the school’s curriculum. Parallels with the theory and practice of environmental sustainable development are used as a framework for this analysis.

DKK 757.00

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Third Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar - - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Third Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar contains nine chapters on adult third language (L3) or multilingual acquisition from the Universal Grammar (UG) perspective. A variety of languages other than English are involved in the studies reported in the papers, including Cantonese Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Mandarin Chinese, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, and Thai, with acquisition cases taking place in a number of different geographical locations, such as Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, Norway, Taiwan, Thailand, the UK and the USA. This volume will appeal to those studying L3 acquisition from a variety of theoretical perspectives and should encourage scholarly exchange between the fields of bi-/multilingualism and SLA.

DKK 900.00

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Reflective Practice as Professional Development - Atsuko Watanabe - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This book presents a researcher’s work on reflective practice with a group of high school teachers of English in Japan. Beginning with a series of uncomfortable teacher training sessions delivered to unwilling participants, the book charts the author’s development of new methods of engaging her participants and making use of their own experiences and knowledge. Both an in-depth examination of reflective practice in the context of Japanese cultural conventions and a narrative account of the researcher’s reflexivity in her engagement with the study, the book introduces the concept of ‘the reflective continuum’ – a non-linear journey that mirrors the way reflection develops in unpredictable and individual ways.

DKK 1052.00

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A Tale of Two Schools - Richard Donato - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This volume documents a sixteen-year longitudinal study of two elementary schools in which Spanish and Japanese foreign language programs were implemented and evaluated. Evaluation of the programs involved documenting children’s language development, assessing the attitudes of various constituents, and examining critical issues related to the introduction and successful operation of a well articulated sequential foreign language program in schools. The volume concludes with a discussion of possible reasons why over time certain sequential foreign language programs flourish and grow while other programs are reduced or eliminated from the school’s curriculum. Parallels with the theory and practice of environmental sustainable development are used as a framework for this analysis.

DKK 258.00

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Investigating Pragmatics in Foreign Language Learning, Teaching and Testing - - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The book focuses on investigating pragmatic learning, teaching and testing in foreign language contexts. The volume brings together research that investigates these three areas in different formal language learning settings. The number and variety of languages involved both as the first language (e.g. English, Finnish, Iranian, Spanish, Japanese) as well as the target foreign language (e.g. English, French, German, Indonesian, Korean, Spanish) makes the volume specially attractive for language educators in different sociocultural foreign language contexts. Additionally, the different approaches adopted by the researchers participating in this volume, such as information processing, sociocultural, language socialization, computer-mediated or conversation analysis should be of interest to graduate students and researchers working in the area of second language acquisition.

DKK 310.00

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Context, Individual Differences and Pragmatic Competence - Naoko Taguchi - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Pragmatic competence plays a key role in the era of globalization where communication across cultural boundaries is an everyday phenomenon. The ability to use language in a socially appropriate manner is critical, as lack of it may lead to cross-cultural miscommunication or cultural stereotyping. This book describes second language learners’ development of pragmatic competence. It proposes an original theoretical framework combining a pragmatics and psycholinguistics approach, and uses a variety of research instruments, both quantitative and qualitative, to describe pragmatic development over one year. Situated in a bilingual university in Japan, the study reveals patterns of change across different pragmatic abilities among Japanese learners of English. The book offers implications for SLA theories, the teaching and assessment of pragmatic competence, and intercultural communication.

DKK 364.00

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Emerging Self-Identities and Emotion in Foreign Language Learning - Masuko Miyahara - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This book uses a narrative-oriented approach to shed light on the processes of identity construction and development among Japanese university students of English. The research highlights the instrumental agency of individuals in responding to and acting upon the social environment, and in developing, maintaining and/or reconstructing their identities as L2 users. The study offers unique insights into the role of experience, emotions, social and environmental affordances in shaping their personal orientations to English and self-perceptions as English learner-users. It also examines individuals’ responses to these factors and discusses fluctuations in their motivations. The additional value of this book lies in its detailed account of methodological procedures, challenges and ways to overcome obstacles encountered when undertaking qualitative longitudinal studies.

DKK 946.00

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Context, Individual Differences and Pragmatic Competence - Naoko Taguchi - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Pragmatic competence plays a key role in the era of globalization where communication across cultural boundaries is an everyday phenomenon. The ability to use language in a socially appropriate manner is critical, as lack of it may lead to cross-cultural miscommunication or cultural stereotyping. This book describes second language learners’ development of pragmatic competence. It proposes an original theoretical framework combining a pragmatics and psycholinguistics approach, and uses a variety of research instruments, both quantitative and qualitative, to describe pragmatic development over one year. Situated in a bilingual university in Japan, the study reveals patterns of change across different pragmatic abilities among Japanese learners of English. The book offers implications for SLA theories, the teaching and assessment of pragmatic competence, and intercultural communication.

DKK 1161.00

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Navigating English Policy and Practice in Japan’s Primary Schools - Peter Ferguson - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

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.

DKK 1163.00

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The Socially Responsible Feminist EFL Classroom - Reiko Yoshihara - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This book explores the realities of feminist EFL teachers’ lives through interviews and classroom observations with eight EFL teachers at Japanese universities. The data contained in the book broaden our understanding of feminist teaching in the language classroom while also providing suggestions for practice. The book examines not only how the teachers’ feminist identities influence their pedagogical beliefs and practices but also how the teachers actually practice feminist teaching in their classrooms. The tensions, dilemmas and pleasures of feminist teaching converge in this book, which attempts to shed light on a question that is often asked in either ESL or EFL teaching contexts: is teaching about gender-related topics (including controversial sociopolitical topics) in the language classroom education or indoctrination?

DKK 949.00

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Online Communication in a Second Language - Sarah E. Pasfield Neofitou - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Online Communication in a Second Language examines the use of social computer mediated communication (CMC) with speakers of Japanese via longitudinal case studies of up to four years. Through the analysis of over 2000 blogs, emails, videos, messages, games, and websites, in addition to interviews with learners and their online contacts, the book explores language use and acquisition via contextual resources, repair, and peer feedback. The book provides insight into relationships online, and the influence of perceived ''ownership'' of online spaces by specific cultural or linguistic groups. It not only increases our understanding of online interaction in a second language, but CMC in general. Based on empirical evidence, the study challenges traditional categorisations of CMC mediums, and provides important insights relating to turn-taking, code-switching, and language management online.

DKK 1052.00

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Online Communication in a Second Language - Sarah E. Pasfield Neofitou - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Online Communication in a Second Language examines the use of social computer mediated communication (CMC) with speakers of Japanese via longitudinal case studies of up to four years. Through the analysis of over 2000 blogs, emails, videos, messages, games, and websites, in addition to interviews with learners and their online contacts, the book explores language use and acquisition via contextual resources, repair, and peer feedback. The book provides insight into relationships online, and the influence of perceived ''ownership'' of online spaces by specific cultural or linguistic groups. It not only increases our understanding of online interaction in a second language, but CMC in general. Based on empirical evidence, the study challenges traditional categorisations of CMC mediums, and provides important insights relating to turn-taking, code-switching, and language management online.

DKK 310.00

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Contents Tourism and Pop Culture Fandom - - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This is the first book to apply the concept of ‘contents tourism’ in a global context and to establish an international and interdisciplinary framework for contents tourism research. The term ‘contents tourism’ gained official recognition in Japan when it was defined by the Japanese government in 2005, and it has been characterised as ‘travel behaviour motivated fully or partially by narratives, characters, locations, and other creative elements of popular culture forms including film, television dramas, manga, anime, novels and computer games’ . The book builds on previous research from Japan and explores three main themes of contents tourism: ‘the Contentsization of Literary Worlds’, ‘Tourist Behaviours at “Sacred Sites” of Contents Tourism’ and ‘Contents Tourism as Pilgrimage’ and draws together these key themes to propose a set of policy implications for achieving successful and sustainable contents tourism in the 21st century.

DKK 346.00

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Contents Tourism and Pop Culture Fandom - - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This is the first book to apply the concept of ‘contents tourism’ in a global context and to establish an international and interdisciplinary framework for contents tourism research. The term ‘contents tourism’ gained official recognition in Japan when it was defined by the Japanese government in 2005, and it has been characterised as ‘travel behaviour motivated fully or partially by narratives, characters, locations, and other creative elements of popular culture forms including film, television dramas, manga, anime, novels and computer games’ . The book builds on previous research from Japan and explores three main themes of contents tourism: ‘the Contentsization of Literary Worlds’, ‘Tourist Behaviours at “Sacred Sites” of Contents Tourism’ and ‘Contents Tourism as Pilgrimage’ and draws together these key themes to propose a set of policy implications for achieving successful and sustainable contents tourism in the 21st century.

DKK 1161.00

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Being and Becoming a Speaker of Japanese - Andrea Simon Maeda - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Developing Interactional Competence in a Japanese Study Abroad Context - Naoko Taguchi - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Exploring Japanese University English Teachers' Professional Identity - Diane Hawley Nagatomo - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Japan's Built-in Lexicon of English-based Loanwords - Frank E. Daulton - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Tourism in Japan - Arthur Asa Berger - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Socializing Identities through Speech Style - Haruko Minegishi Cook - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Language Learning, Gender and Desire - Kimie Takahashi - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Making of Monolingual Japan - Patrick Heinrich - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Making of Monolingual Japan - Patrick Heinrich - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Hybrid Identities and Adolescent Girls - Laurel D. Kamada - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Native-Speakerism in Japan - - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A Tale of Two Schools - Richard Donato - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Third Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar - - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Reflective Practice as Professional Development - Atsuko Watanabe - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A Tale of Two Schools - Richard Donato - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Investigating Pragmatics in Foreign Language Learning, Teaching and Testing - - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Context, Individual Differences and Pragmatic Competence - Naoko Taguchi - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Emerging Self-Identities and Emotion in Foreign Language Learning - Masuko Miyahara - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Context, Individual Differences and Pragmatic Competence - Naoko Taguchi - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Navigating English Policy and Practice in Japan’s Primary Schools - Peter Ferguson - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Socially Responsible Feminist EFL Classroom - Reiko Yoshihara - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Online Communication in a Second Language - Sarah E. Pasfield Neofitou - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Online Communication in a Second Language - Sarah E. Pasfield Neofitou - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Contents Tourism and Pop Culture Fandom - - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Contents Tourism and Pop Culture Fandom - - Bog - Channel View Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

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