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Navigating English Policy and Practice in Japan's Primary Schools

Navigating English Policy and Practice in Japan's Primary Schools

Ferguson, Peter

Hardcover

Series: Early Language Learning in School Contexts, Book 12

General ReferenceGeneral Education

ISBN10: 1836681518
ISBN13: 9781836681519
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
Published: Sep 16 2025
Pages: 195
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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