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Simon-Maeda, Andrea – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2009
This report is part of a larger, 2-year ethnography of bi- and multilingual speakers in Japan. On the basis of audio and videotape recordings of discussions among international students in a Japanese university, this study examines participants' deployment of different conversational resources to understand and talk about marginalizing…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Ethnography, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Oda, Masaki – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2007
In an article on English and national identity, Spring gives a historical survey of the role of English and its relation to Japanese national identity. Although English was discouraged during World War II, as it was considered the language of enemy, it was again "made an important academic language and in 1956 was included in entrance…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Secondary Schools, Nationalism, War