Foreign Language Education in Japan
Language education is a highly contested arenawithin any nation and one that arouses an array of sentiments and identityconflicts. What languages, or what varieties of a language, are to be taughtand learned, and how? By whom, for whom, for what purposes and in whatcontexts? Such questions concern not only policy makers but also teachers,parents, students, as well as businesspeople, politicians, a...
Language education is a highly contested arenawithin any nation and one that arouses an array of sentiments and identityconflicts. What languages, or what varieties of a language, are to be taughtand learned, and how? By whom, for whom, for what purposes and in whatcontexts? Such questions concern not only policy makers but also teachers,parents, students, as well as businesspeople, politicians, a...