Takunori Terasawa
Biographic Data
| ID | 906373 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Takunori Terasawa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Takunori |
| FAMILY NAME | Terasawa |
| SIGNATURE | TERASAWA T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kwansei Gakuin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1806-0963 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
English language education as public and education policies
This paper underscores the need for a specialised framework in English-as-a-foreign-language education (EFLE) policy research, as existing language policy and planning (LPP) models are too broad to adequately capture the specificities of EFLE. It argues that EFLE shares more foundational assumptions with public and education policy, highlighting the necessity of analytical frameworks specialised for EFLE policy. Drawing on case studies from Japan…
Measuring inequality in access to English across East Asia
This study statistically examines disparities in access to acquiring English language proficiency (ELL‐access gaps) in China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, using nationally representative survey data and a model that assumes causal relationships of ‘social origins → English proficiency’. While previous studies have focused on the mere presence or absence of ELL‐access gaps based on single‐country case studies, this research adopts a cross‐nation…
A critical review of L2 teaching and learning research in Japan (2019–2023)
In our critical review, we explore the progress of second language (L2) teaching research in Japan from 2019 to 2023, focusing particularly on English Language Teaching (ELT) and Japanese Language Teaching (JLT). After scrutinising numerous publications from over 50 academic journals, as well as academic books and chapters, we selected around 40 studies for analysis. These studies met our screening criteria of articles published in Japan, which w…
East Asia and English language speakers
Many applied linguists have attempted to quantify the number of English-speaking populations, both globally and in specific countries. However, thus far, those in East Asia have not been estimated through a robust technique. This paucity of estimation can be partly attributed to the lack of censuses or large-scale sociolinguistic surveys; nonetheless, other secondary data can be used for this purpose. This study analyses two nationally representa…
Slogans as a policy distractor
This paper examines recent reforms in English-language testing in Japan using a policy distraction framework. We identify the term 'washback (effect)' and other related discourses as major distractors and investigate how 'washback' discourses have functioned as political slogans or catchphrases in policy deliberation processes and how they have diverted attention and resources from more essential issues. By analyzing advisory panel minutes and ot…
Relationship between English proficiency and socioeconomic status in Asia
This study investigates the relationship between English language proficiency and socioeconomic status (ELP-SES relationship) through a quantitative cross-national analysis of 30 jurisdictions in Asia. It aims to uncover the degrees and patterns of the ELP-SES relationship by analysing AsiaBarometer surveys conducted in the mid-2000s. Specifically, it assesses how English proficiency correlates with seven demographic and SES factors: generation, …
Web survey data on the use of the English language in the Japanese workplace
This study sought to determine the extent to which English has spread in Japanese society. It analyses large‐scale web panel‐based questionnaire survey data and estimates English use frequency using a bias correction method. The results show that for most types of English use investigated, the average frequencies were less than five times a year, the proportions of English users were less than 20%, and these frequencies varied according to the ty…
Does the pandemic hamper or boost the necessity for an international language? A survey on English use frequency among Japanese workers
This study aims to reveal the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the necessity of using English as an international language. For this purpose, this study conducted a web survey of Japanese workers, and statistically examined the extent to which the use of English increased or decreased after the outbreak. The findings are as follows. First, although some types of use decreased or increased, the majority did not show substantial changes. Second, …
What made primary English education in Japan different from the global trend? A policy process analysis
Evidence-based language policy
This paper conducts a theoretical examination of an evidence-based approach (EBA) to research on language policy and language-in-education policy (LPLEP), as well as a methodological examination of the feasibility of evidence-based LPLEP research based on actual studies. Theoretical scrutiny, based on EBA’s core concepts—evidence hierarchy, internal validity, and external validity—presents a guideline that suggests what kinds of LPLEP evidence ar…
The contradictory effect of the ‘global’ on the ‘local’
This paper aims to establish that globalised social and linguistic changes have a more complicated impact on local behaviours and attitudes than is believed. Based on statistical analysis of nationally representative surveys in Japan, the paper presents evidence against the following two propositions: (1) globalisation increases local demand for English use and (2) local enthusiasm for English-education reforms is a direct outcome of globalisatio…
Has socioeconomic development reduced the English divide? A statistical analysis of access to English skills in Japan
As English skills are being increasingly perceived as valuable human capital, an awareness of inequitable access to the acquisition of this ‘profitable’ language has developed. Although this allegedly unequal access, which can be referred to as the ‘English divide’, is a matter of concern to applied linguists, little research has been conducted on the historical transformation (or maintenance) of the English divide within a specific society. Ther…
Has socioeconomic development reduced the English divide? A statistical analysis of access to English skills in Japan
As English skills are being increasingly perceived as valuable human capital, an awareness of inequitable access to the acquisition of this ‘profitable’ language has developed. Although this allegedly unequal access, which can be referred to as the ‘English divide’, is a matter of concern to applied linguists, little research has been conducted on the historical transformation (or maintenance) of the English divide within a specific society. Ther…
The contradictory effect of the ‘global’ on the ‘local’
This paper aims to establish that globalised social and linguistic changes have a more complicated impact on local behaviours and attitudes than is believed. Based on statistical analysis of nationally representative surveys in Japan, the paper presents evidence against the following two propositions: (1) globalisation increases local demand for English use and (2) local enthusiasm for English-education reforms is a direct outcome of globalisatio…
Evidence-based language policy
This paper conducts a theoretical examination of an evidence-based approach (EBA) to research on language policy and language-in-education policy (LPLEP), as well as a methodological examination of the feasibility of evidence-based LPLEP research based on actual studies. Theoretical scrutiny, based on EBA’s core concepts—evidence hierarchy, internal validity, and external validity—presents a guideline that suggests what kinds of LPLEP evidence ar…
The contradictory effect of the ‘global’ on the ‘local’
This paper aims to establish that globalised social and linguistic changes have a more complicated impact on local behaviours and attitudes than is believed. Based on statistical analysis of nationally representative surveys in Japan, the paper presents evidence against the following two propositions: (1) globalisation increases local demand for English use and (2) local enthusiasm for English-education reforms is a direct outcome of globalisatio…
Has socioeconomic development reduced the English divide? A statistical analysis of access to English skills in Japan
As English skills are being increasingly perceived as valuable human capital, an awareness of inequitable access to the acquisition of this ‘profitable’ language has developed. Although this allegedly unequal access, which can be referred to as the ‘English divide’, is a matter of concern to applied linguists, little research has been conducted on the historical transformation (or maintenance) of the English divide within a specific society. Ther…
Evidence-based language policy
This paper conducts a theoretical examination of an evidence-based approach (EBA) to research on language policy and language-in-education policy (LPLEP), as well as a methodological examination of the feasibility of evidence-based LPLEP research based on actual studies. Theoretical scrutiny, based on EBA’s core concepts—evidence hierarchy, internal validity, and external validity—presents a guideline that suggests what kinds of LPLEP evidence ar…
What made primary English education in Japan different from the global trend? A policy process analysis
Web survey data on the use of the English language in the Japanese workplace
This study sought to determine the extent to which English has spread in Japanese society. It analyses large‐scale web panel‐based questionnaire survey data and estimates English use frequency using a bias correction method. The results show that for most types of English use investigated, the average frequencies were less than five times a year, the proportions of English users were less than 20%, and these frequencies varied according to the ty…
Does the pandemic hamper or boost the necessity for an international language? A survey on English use frequency among Japanese workers
This study aims to reveal the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the necessity of using English as an international language. For this purpose, this study conducted a web survey of Japanese workers, and statistically examined the extent to which the use of English increased or decreased after the outbreak. The findings are as follows. First, although some types of use decreased or increased, the majority did not show substantial changes. Second, …
East Asia and English language speakers
Many applied linguists have attempted to quantify the number of English-speaking populations, both globally and in specific countries. However, thus far, those in East Asia have not been estimated through a robust technique. This paucity of estimation can be partly attributed to the lack of censuses or large-scale sociolinguistic surveys; nonetheless, other secondary data can be used for this purpose. This study analyses two nationally representa…
Slogans as a policy distractor
This paper examines recent reforms in English-language testing in Japan using a policy distraction framework. We identify the term 'washback (effect)' and other related discourses as major distractors and investigate how 'washback' discourses have functioned as political slogans or catchphrases in policy deliberation processes and how they have diverted attention and resources from more essential issues. By analyzing advisory panel minutes and ot…
Relationship between English proficiency and socioeconomic status in Asia
This study investigates the relationship between English language proficiency and socioeconomic status (ELP-SES relationship) through a quantitative cross-national analysis of 30 jurisdictions in Asia. It aims to uncover the degrees and patterns of the ELP-SES relationship by analysing AsiaBarometer surveys conducted in the mid-2000s. Specifically, it assesses how English proficiency correlates with seven demographic and SES factors: generation, …
A critical review of L2 teaching and learning research in Japan (2019–2023)
In our critical review, we explore the progress of second language (L2) teaching research in Japan from 2019 to 2023, focusing particularly on English Language Teaching (ELT) and Japanese Language Teaching (JLT). After scrutinising numerous publications from over 50 academic journals, as well as academic books and chapters, we selected around 40 studies for analysis. These studies met our screening criteria of articles published in Japan, which w…
English language education as public and education policies
This paper underscores the need for a specialised framework in English-as-a-foreign-language education (EFLE) policy research, as existing language policy and planning (LPP) models are too broad to adequately capture the specificities of EFLE. It argues that EFLE shares more foundational assumptions with public and education policy, highlighting the necessity of analytical frameworks specialised for EFLE policy. Drawing on case studies from Japan…
Measuring inequality in access to English across East Asia
This study statistically examines disparities in access to acquiring English language proficiency (ELL‐access gaps) in China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, using nationally representative survey data and a model that assumes causal relationships of ‘social origins → English proficiency’. While previous studies have focused on the mere presence or absence of ELL‐access gaps based on single‐country case studies, this research adopts a cross‐nation…
Multilingual Education and Policy (11 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (5 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Demography (3 works) · English language (3 works)