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- Communicating with Asia
- Communicating with Asia
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Book part
- Communicating with Asia: introduction
- Part I English in selected regional and national habitats with a glance at the role of outward-bound communication needs
- 1 The development of English in Pakistan
- 2 English for Japan: in the cultural context of the East Asian Expanding Circle
- 3 Convergence and divergence of English in Malaysia and Singapore
- 4 Indian English prosody
- 5 Charting the endonormative stabilization of Singapore English
- 6 Arabic in contact with English and Malay in Malaysia
- 7 Preposition stranding and pied-piping in Philippine English: a corpus-based study
- 8 The Americanization of the phonology of Asian Englishes: evidence from Singapore
- 9 Postcolonial and learner Englishes in Southeast Asia: implications for international communication
- Part II Major other languages in Asia, their international status and impact on education
- Part III Wider perspectives
- Bibliography
- Index
2 - English for Japan: in the cultural context of the East Asian Expanding Circle
from Part I - English in selected regional and national habitats with a glance at the role of outward-bound communication needs
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2016
- Communicating with Asia
- Communicating with Asia
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Book part
- Communicating with Asia: introduction
- Part I English in selected regional and national habitats with a glance at the role of outward-bound communication needs
- 1 The development of English in Pakistan
- 2 English for Japan: in the cultural context of the East Asian Expanding Circle
- 3 Convergence and divergence of English in Malaysia and Singapore
- 4 Indian English prosody
- 5 Charting the endonormative stabilization of Singapore English
- 6 Arabic in contact with English and Malay in Malaysia
- 7 Preposition stranding and pied-piping in Philippine English: a corpus-based study
- 8 The Americanization of the phonology of Asian Englishes: evidence from Singapore
- 9 Postcolonial and learner Englishes in Southeast Asia: implications for international communication
- Part II Major other languages in Asia, their international status and impact on education
- Part III Wider perspectives
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter investigates the role of English for the Japanese with a consideration of its historical and sociolinguistic background, followed by an analysis of English language teaching policies and pedagogies in Japan in terms of their struggles to cope with today’s urgent needs for international communication. English used to be perceived as a tool for absorbing advanced Western technologies and cultures, and was taught solely for passive acquisition of knowledge. However, recently, the Japanese have found it imperative to express themselves to the outer world in English in various domains, including the economy, politics, technology and academic studies; hence, English is being taught for communicative purposes. A major obstacle to acquiring English for communication is the predominance of native-speakerism, a belief that native speaking English is the only model, neglecting the potential of linguistic creativity or Japanization of English. A short discussion of the situation in Korea, the closest neighbor, will be added.
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- Communicating with AsiaThe Future of English as a Global Language, pp. 28 - 42Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016
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