Kyoko Motobayashi
Biographic Data
| ID | 6223199 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kyoko Motobayashi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kyoko |
| FAMILY NAME | Motobayashi |
| SIGNATURE | MOTOBAYASHI K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1885-0110 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
State management of bilingualism
This paper presents a comparative analysis of two language policies developed in the 2000s by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). The two language policies analyzed in this paper are the ‘Action Plan to Cultivate Japanese with English Abilities’ and ‘JSL [Japanese as a Second Language] Curriculum in School Education,’ developed within the same temporal and spatial frame at the turn of the millennium…
Language teacher subjectivities in Japan’s diaspora strategies
Language teacher subjectivities in Japan’s diaspora strategies
This study demonstrates the ways in which discourses in a state-sponsored volunteer program incited transformations of individual subjectivities, focusing on a group of Japanese language teacher volunteers training in Japan to become teachers of Japanese as a heritage language for the country’s diaspora (Nikkei) population in South America. As teachers of heritage Japanese at Japanese language schools in these Nikkei communities, their work was c…
Languaging the worker
In the introduction to the special issue “Languaging the worker: globalized governmentalities in/of language in peripheral spaces”, we take up the notion of governmentality as a means to interrogate the complex relationship between language, labor, power and subjectivity in peripheral multilingual spaces. Our aim here is to argue for the study of governmentality as a viable and growing approach in critical sociolinguistic research. As such, in th…
Autobiographic episodes as languaging
The purpose of our program of research is to explore the role of languaging on the part of older adults residing in long-term care facilities. We suggest that languaging-based activities can enhance the quality of life of such older adults including aspects of their cognition and affect. Languaging is the use of language to mediate cognitive and affective processes (Swain, 2006, 2010). In this case study, Mary (a resident) engages in the effortfu…
Languaging the worker
In the introduction to the special issue “Languaging the worker: globalized governmentalities in/of language in peripheral spaces”, we take up the notion of governmentality as a means to interrogate the complex relationship between language, labor, power and subjectivity in peripheral multilingual spaces. Our aim here is to argue for the study of governmentality as a viable and growing approach in critical sociolinguistic research. As such, in th…
Language teacher subjectivities in Japan’s diaspora strategies
Autobiographic episodes as languaging
The purpose of our program of research is to explore the role of languaging on the part of older adults residing in long-term care facilities. We suggest that languaging-based activities can enhance the quality of life of such older adults including aspects of their cognition and affect. Languaging is the use of language to mediate cognitive and affective processes (Swain, 2006, 2010). In this case study, Mary (a resident) engages in the effortfu…
Language teacher subjectivities in Japan’s diaspora strategies
Language teacher subjectivities in Japan’s diaspora strategies
This study demonstrates the ways in which discourses in a state-sponsored volunteer program incited transformations of individual subjectivities, focusing on a group of Japanese language teacher volunteers training in Japan to become teachers of Japanese as a heritage language for the country’s diaspora (Nikkei) population in South America. As teachers of heritage Japanese at Japanese language schools in these Nikkei communities, their work was c…
Languaging the worker
In the introduction to the special issue “Languaging the worker: globalized governmentalities in/of language in peripheral spaces”, we take up the notion of governmentality as a means to interrogate the complex relationship between language, labor, power and subjectivity in peripheral multilingual spaces. Our aim here is to argue for the study of governmentality as a viable and growing approach in critical sociolinguistic research. As such, in th…
State management of bilingualism
This paper presents a comparative analysis of two language policies developed in the 2000s by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). The two language policies analyzed in this paper are the ‘Action Plan to Cultivate Japanese with English Abilities’ and ‘JSL [Japanese as a Second Language] Curriculum in School Education,’ developed within the same temporal and spatial frame at the turn of the millennium…
Linguistics (5 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Diaspora (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Governmentality (2 works)