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Domenach, Florent; Araki, Naoko; Agnello, Mary Frances – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2021
This discussion examines the ever-increasing impact of top-down nation-wide educational reforms on teachers in Japan, exemplified in the 2020 reform. Its unique contribution is a suggestion of an interdisciplinary framework: programming education and English as a foreign language education in elementary schools. Many elementary school teachers are…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Tajima, Misako – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2020
This article explores the idea of "engagement with English as a neoliberal endeavor." Drawing on narrative accounts from seven employees who are/were affiliated with Japan-based companies that have adopted English as an official corporate language (EOCL), the article argues that even in these supposed "global" organizations,…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning
McKinley, Jim – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2015
This article makes the argument that we need to situate student's academic writing as socially constructed pieces of writing that embody a writer's cultural identity and critical argument. In support, I present and describe a comprehensive model of an original English as a Foreign Language (EFL) writing analytical framework. This article explains…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Academic Discourse, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Kubota, Ryuko – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2014
In language education, controversial issues sometimes emerge in either planned or spontaneous ways. Based on a classroom episode, this article illuminates dilemmas of approaching controversial issues for teachers who embrace critical pedagogy. A review of interdisciplinary literature demonstrates a general agreement on presenting balanced views…
Descriptors: Death, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Critical Theory, Teaching Methods
Yamada, Mieko – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2013
This article investigates how Japanese university students perceive Japan's domestic diversity and understand the role of English within that context. Surveys and interviews with Japanese students reveal how they reflect on their own experiences with diversity in their past English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classes and also help to explore the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Surveys
Hatano, Kazuma – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2012
In this article, the author considers Daisaku Ikeda's (1928-) educational philosophy in the context of English education policies in Japan. The author begins by explicating Ikeda's concepts of wisdom versus knowledge and "society for education" (e.g., Ikeda, 2000; Sadovnichy & Ikeda, 2002). He then suggests consideration of these…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Awareness of Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Japanese Junior High Schools' English Language Textbooks
Yamada, Mieko – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2011
This article explores how cultural attitudes about race and ethnicity are taught in the English language textbooks as a part of Japan's school curriculum. A content analysis of Japanese junior high school textbooks on English as a foreign language published from 1987 to 2002 was conducted. Four hypotheses were investigated relating to 1) the…
Descriptors: Junior High Schools, Textbooks, Global Approach, Foreign Countries
Meadows, Bryan – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2010
Taking a sociocultural perspective, this study addresses the interface between language learners and novel communities of practice. The study combines the social learning theory of communities of practice with social constructivist treatments of nation-states as imagined communities in order to consider "imagined national communities of…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Second Language Learning, Japanese, Discourse Analysis
Wilcox, K. Campbell – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2007
This article reports on a study investigating ways students from Japan studying English as a second language at an American community college encounter cultural dissonance in their classroom interactions. I take a sociocognitive view rooted in the work of Bakhtin and Vygostky to explore the ways language, culture, and cognitive processes interplay…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Cognitive Processes