Using the paradigm of ‘small cultures’ to explain policy failure in the case of foreign language education in Japan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6195075 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert W Aspinall (0009-0007-3079-578X, Shiga University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 255-274 |
| Publication date | 2006-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Japan Forum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0955-5803 • E-ISSN: 1469-932X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09555800600731197 |
| OpenAlex | W2034933833 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 16 |
Despite success in many areas of education policy, the Japanese education system has been criticized at home and abroad for poor levels of communicative foreign language teaching. There has been a consensus on the need to improve performance in English teaching in particular among actors in the policy-making process. There has also been a considerable demand for private English language classes throughout Japan for some time. Focusing on government efforts to improve English language teaching since the mid-1980s, this article proposes that obstacles to the improvement of foreign language teaching can best be understood through an analysis of the social norms, values and expectations relating to teaching and learning that permeate school and university classrooms in Japan. The paradigm of ‘small cultures’ (Holliday 1999 Holliday, Adrian. 1999. ‘Small cultures’. Applied Linguistics, 20(2): 237–64. [CROSSREF][CSA][Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) is used in order to show how common characteristics of the learning environment in Japan influence the interactions of groups of learners and teachers in ways that inhibit effective communicative foreign language teaching practice
Business · Communicative language teaching · English as a foreign language · Foreign language · Foreign language teaching · Language education · Linguistics · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Political science · Sociology · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Psychology · Second Language Learning and Teaching
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
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| Citations per year | 0,56 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2025 (18) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |