Satoru Nakagawa
Biographic Data
| ID | 5167657 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Satoru Nakagawa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Satoru |
| FAMILY NAME | Nakagawa |
| SIGNATURE | NAKAGAWA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manitoba |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7826-4335 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Gigification of English Language Instructor Work in Higher Education
This article describes how discourses of professionalism, insecurity, and exploitation among English as a second language/English for Academic Purposes (hereinafter ESL/EAP) instructors and curriculum‐level administrators at two Canadian universities relate to their understanding of fair work. These understandings are examined in a nested manner, in keeping with social positioning theory. Via discourse and thematic analysis of job advertisements …
Identities of Resignation
We suggest that while Indigenous languages are threatened by capitalist and neoliberal encroachments, responses from applied linguists in the academy can be misguided. To make our argument, we must first define neoliberalism, and examine how the broader neoliberal discourses of choice, competition and the free market have percolated and distilled into local Indigenous language contexts, impacting languages, cultures and identities. We ask ourselv…
Auto-decolonisation
In this article I will first address what decolonisation is with specific reference to the colonisation and enslavement (Nelson, 2006) of Indigenous peoples, specifically my own people, the Indigenous Amami of the former Ryukyu Kingdom. According to Laenui (2006), there were five steps of colonisation, many of which I suggest are not yet complete. These steps, as a linear progression, are based on the colonisers’ viewpoints rather than the perspe…
Neoliberal Sleight of Hand in a University Strategic Plan
This research analyzed the University of Manitoba (UofM) Strategic Plan to both quantify the occurrence of specific keywords and make inferences about the purpose, messages, and effects being communicated by those keywords. In the first section of this paper, we provide an overview of the historical development and purpose of the neoliberal university. Second, we engage with content and critical discourse analysis to understand how academic work …
Toward a non-extractive research ethics for transcultural, translingual research
It is widely acknowledged that research ethics is a controversial notion in cross-linguistic, crosscultural research. We suggest that most ethical issues in research arise from four major issues: (1) ethics is not adequately defined, theoretically or practically; (2) researchers have failed to make a distinction in the types of communities they study; (3) insider research versus outsider research has been insufficiently considered; and (4) consen…
The Present Tense[ions] of English in One Local Context in Japan
Recent and not-so-recent critiques of teaching English as a second or other language (TESOL) have explored the relationship between English language teaching and colonialism. Consequently, native speaker and non-native speaker practitioners have started to question their pedagogies and to re/consider their roles in relation not only to minority languages and local knowledges but also to one another. Adding to this discussion, this article raises …
Linguistic Ecosystems for Foreign-Language Learning in Canada and Japan
We report on international research that compares linguistic ecosystems, that is, socially constructed public attitudes and ideologies concerned with foreign-language (FL) learning, in Canada and Japan. Analyzing responses to three interview questions from 125 interviews with five categories of respondent in each country, we suggest that there are a number of key differences between the linguistic ecosystems of the two countries, most notably tha…
Pre-service Teacher Beliefs About Foreign Language Teaching and Learning
This paper reports on the results of survey data examining English-speaking preservice teachers' (PSTs) attitudes toward and beliefs about foreign language teaching and learning. Part of a larger international study aimed at answering the research question: ‘What are the national, social, economic, and institutional “socialsuggestive norms” (Miele, 1982) that encourage (or discourage) foreign language learning?’, this survey was administered to P…
Toward a non-extractive research ethics for transcultural, translingual research
It is widely acknowledged that research ethics is a controversial notion in cross-linguistic, crosscultural research. We suggest that most ethical issues in research arise from four major issues: (1) ethics is not adequately defined, theoretically or practically; (2) researchers have failed to make a distinction in the types of communities they study; (3) insider research versus outsider research has been insufficiently considered; and (4) consen…
Identities of Resignation
We suggest that while Indigenous languages are threatened by capitalist and neoliberal encroachments, responses from applied linguists in the academy can be misguided. To make our argument, we must first define neoliberalism, and examine how the broader neoliberal discourses of choice, competition and the free market have percolated and distilled into local Indigenous language contexts, impacting languages, cultures and identities. We ask ourselv…
Auto-decolonisation
In this article I will first address what decolonisation is with specific reference to the colonisation and enslavement (Nelson, 2006) of Indigenous peoples, specifically my own people, the Indigenous Amami of the former Ryukyu Kingdom. According to Laenui (2006), there were five steps of colonisation, many of which I suggest are not yet complete. These steps, as a linear progression, are based on the colonisers’ viewpoints rather than the perspe…
Neoliberal Sleight of Hand in a University Strategic Plan
This research analyzed the University of Manitoba (UofM) Strategic Plan to both quantify the occurrence of specific keywords and make inferences about the purpose, messages, and effects being communicated by those keywords. In the first section of this paper, we provide an overview of the historical development and purpose of the neoliberal university. Second, we engage with content and critical discourse analysis to understand how academic work …
Pre-service Teacher Beliefs About Foreign Language Teaching and Learning
This paper reports on the results of survey data examining English-speaking preservice teachers' (PSTs) attitudes toward and beliefs about foreign language teaching and learning. Part of a larger international study aimed at answering the research question: ‘What are the national, social, economic, and institutional “socialsuggestive norms” (Miele, 1982) that encourage (or discourage) foreign language learning?’, this survey was administered to P…
Pre-service Teacher Beliefs About Foreign Language Teaching and Learning
This paper reports on the results of survey data examining English-speaking preservice teachers' (PSTs) attitudes toward and beliefs about foreign language teaching and learning. Part of a larger international study aimed at answering the research question: ‘What are the national, social, economic, and institutional “socialsuggestive norms” (Miele, 1982) that encourage (or discourage) foreign language learning?’, this survey was administered to P…
The Present Tense[ions] of English in One Local Context in Japan
Recent and not-so-recent critiques of teaching English as a second or other language (TESOL) have explored the relationship between English language teaching and colonialism. Consequently, native speaker and non-native speaker practitioners have started to question their pedagogies and to re/consider their roles in relation not only to minority languages and local knowledges but also to one another. Adding to this discussion, this article raises …
Linguistic Ecosystems for Foreign-Language Learning in Canada and Japan
We report on international research that compares linguistic ecosystems, that is, socially constructed public attitudes and ideologies concerned with foreign-language (FL) learning, in Canada and Japan. Analyzing responses to three interview questions from 125 interviews with five categories of respondent in each country, we suggest that there are a number of key differences between the linguistic ecosystems of the two countries, most notably tha…
Toward a non-extractive research ethics for transcultural, translingual research
It is widely acknowledged that research ethics is a controversial notion in cross-linguistic, crosscultural research. We suggest that most ethical issues in research arise from four major issues: (1) ethics is not adequately defined, theoretically or practically; (2) researchers have failed to make a distinction in the types of communities they study; (3) insider research versus outsider research has been insufficiently considered; and (4) consen…
Identities of Resignation
We suggest that while Indigenous languages are threatened by capitalist and neoliberal encroachments, responses from applied linguists in the academy can be misguided. To make our argument, we must first define neoliberalism, and examine how the broader neoliberal discourses of choice, competition and the free market have percolated and distilled into local Indigenous language contexts, impacting languages, cultures and identities. We ask ourselv…
Auto-decolonisation
In this article I will first address what decolonisation is with specific reference to the colonisation and enslavement (Nelson, 2006) of Indigenous peoples, specifically my own people, the Indigenous Amami of the former Ryukyu Kingdom. According to Laenui (2006), there were five steps of colonisation, many of which I suggest are not yet complete. These steps, as a linear progression, are based on the colonisers’ viewpoints rather than the perspe…
Neoliberal Sleight of Hand in a University Strategic Plan
This research analyzed the University of Manitoba (UofM) Strategic Plan to both quantify the occurrence of specific keywords and make inferences about the purpose, messages, and effects being communicated by those keywords. In the first section of this paper, we provide an overview of the historical development and purpose of the neoliberal university. Second, we engage with content and critical discourse analysis to understand how academic work …
Gigification of English Language Instructor Work in Higher Education
This article describes how discourses of professionalism, insecurity, and exploitation among English as a second language/English for Academic Purposes (hereinafter ESL/EAP) instructors and curriculum‐level administrators at two Canadian universities relate to their understanding of fair work. These understandings are examined in a nested manner, in keeping with social positioning theory. Via discourse and thematic analysis of job advertisements …
Sociology (6 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (5 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (4 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (3 works) · Global Education and Multiculturalism (3 works) · Indigenous (3 works)