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Navigating English Policy and Practice in Japan’s Primary Schools: (12 Early Language Learning in School Contexts)


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This book investigates recent changes in language education policy and the implementation of English as a foreign language (EFL) in Japan’s public elementary schools. Through interviews with policymakers, school principals and elementary school teachers, it examines the challenges in creating, transmitting and applying this new language policy. It reveals not only the contents of language policy documents, but the political and socioeconomic rationale for introducing EFL into Japan’s national curriculum. This book will aid understanding of various macro-level discourses, such as progressive and conservative views of schooling in Japan and how globalization has affected attitudes toward English education. It will be of interest to researchers in language policy and planning, second language acquisition, second language teacher education and Japanese studies.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Note on Name Conventions Introduction: Ethnographic Insights into Elementary English Language Policy in Japan Chapter 1. Language Classrooms: Competing Ideologies on Language, Culture and Identity Chapter 2. The Politics of Policy Formulation: Acceptance and Resistance Chapter 3. The Players: MEXT, the Board of Education and Schools  Chapter 4. Policy or How the Ministry of Education Controls Language Learning Chapter 5. The Role of Textbooks Chapter 6. Teachers Bringing English Language Policies to Life Chapter 7. English Lessons Reimagined: Making Policy More Meaningful for Young Learners Conclusion Appendices References Index

About the Author :
Peter Ferguson is Associate Professor of Languages and Education at Kindai University, Japan. Following 30 years as a language teacher in Japan, his work explores educational linguistics, language policies, English education for young learners and language teacher education.

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Employing multiple case study methods, Ferguson colorfully illustrates and critically examines how social structure, power and ideologies shape policy implementation, focusing on English education in Japanese elementary schools. Presented with conceptual clarity and accessible language, the study offers valuable global insights and profound implications for understanding educational reforms. Peter Ferguson's book is a pioneering study of an important subject that has been too long neglected. Ferguson analyses and assesses the education policy-making process, the elementary school English curriculum, the textbook production process, and how localities, schools, and teachers have attempted to cope with the requirement to teach English in elementary schools. Readers will gain many insights from his research. This volume offers a nuanced and insightful examination of the ideologies, structures, and actors shaping the language policy landscape. It breaks new ground as one of the few monographs to investigate the implementation of English education policy at the elementary school level in Japan. For those interested in similar themes, it will prove to be an invaluable resource.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781836681519
  • Publisher: Channel View Publications Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Multilingual Matters
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 195
  • Series Title: 12 Early Language Learning in School Contexts
  • Weight: 612 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1836681518
  • Publisher Date: 16 Sep 2025
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Width: 156 mm


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