Does the ownership rest with us? Global English and the native speaker ideal among Japanese high school students
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Article Title | Does the ownership rest with us? Global English and the native speaker ideal among Japanese high school students |
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ERA Journal ID | 39917 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Saito, Akihiro (Author) and Hatoss, Aniko (Author) |
Journal Title | International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning |
Journal Citation | 6 (2), pp. 108-125 |
Number of Pages | 18 |
Year | 2011 |
Place of Publication | Maleny, Australia |
ISSN | 1833-4105 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.5172/ijpl.2011.108 |
Web Address (URL) | http://www.atypon-link.com/EMP/doi/pdf/10.5172/ijpl.2011.6.2.108 |
Abstract | This paper reports on an empirical study that examined the native speaker ideal among Japanese high school students by measuring their language attitudes in this respect. The paper provides two key findings. First, Japanese high school students give by far the most positive evaluations to native than to nonnative varieties of English while, at the same time, they most devalue their own Japanese performance variety. Secondly, they opt for learning English for its intra-Anglosphere currency and utility, rather than for its broader functionality in the global arena. The results together pose a challenge to the current scholarly conceptualisations of global English and the corresponding pedagogy. Thus, the study makes an empirical contribution to the ongoing theoretical debate about the language globalisation process and language pedagogy in the EFL context. |
Keywords | language learning; language attitudes; globalisation; native speaker; motivation; Japanese high school students |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 470401. Applied linguistics and educational linguistics |
470210. Globalisation and culture | |
470411. Sociolinguistics | |
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Byline Affiliations | Faculty of Education |
Centre for Research in Transformative Pedagogies | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q0v71/does-the-ownership-rest-with-us-global-english-and-the-native-speaker-ideal-among-japanese-high-school-students
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