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Kubota, Ryuko; Takeda, Yuya – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2021
Foreign language education primarily aims to cultivate learners' competence to communicate in an additional language. However, the meaning of communication competence is not entirely transparent, especially given the current neoliberal valorization of communication in the knowledge economy. The meaning of communication can be scrutinized in two…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Communicative Competence (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Kubota, Ryuko – TESOL Quarterly, 1999
Questions the cultural labels attached to Japanese culture in much of applied linguistics research. Maintains that such labels are constructed by a colonial discourse that views the "other" as being what the West is not. Proposes a pedagogy of critical literacy that supports cultural pluralism while recognizing the benefits of an…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Applied Linguistics, Colonialism, Cultural Differences
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Kubota, Ryuko – TESOL Quarterly, 2001
Examines how classroom cultures in the United States and Asia are discursively constructed by researchers in applied linguistics and education. Suggests that the literature of applied linguistics and some in education compares idealized perspectives of U.S. classrooms with more typical images of classrooms in Asia. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Classroom Environment, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis
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Kubota, Ryuko – TESOL Quarterly, 2002
This author reacts to a critique that was written in response to a previous article that she wrote on discursive construction of the images of U.S. classrooms. She suggests the critique is reactionary, defending a liberal pluralist stance that takes little account of the power and politics influencing the construction of images of the self and the…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, English (Second Language), Ethics
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Sower, Craig; Atkinson, Dwight; Kubota, Ryuko – TESOL Quarterly, 1999
Continues the discussion of critical approaches to culture through comments on an earlier article by Kubota (v33 n1 Spr 1999). Raises questions about Kubota's discussion of the need for critical multiculturalism, and Kubota responds. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism, English (Second Language)
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Kubota, Ryuko; McKay, Sandra – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2009
Drawing on a study of current language use in a rural community in Japan, we question to what extent English actually does serve today as a lingua franca in multilingual, internationally diverse communities. Specifically, we report on a critical ethnography of a small Japanese community with a growing number of non-English-speaking immigrants,…
Descriptors: Role, Multilingualism, Ethnography, Global Approach
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Kubota, Ryuko; Lin, Angel – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2006
The field of teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) brings people from various racialized backgrounds together in teaching, learning, and research. The idea of race, racialization, and racism are inescapable topics that arise in the contact zones created by teaching English worldwide and thus are valid topics to explore in the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Race, Racial Bias