Studying English both in the ASEAN region and the West: Japanese multiple sojourners’ self-identity, privilege, and global isolation
Studying English both in the ASEAN region and the West: Japanese multiple sojourners’ self-identity, privilege, and global isolation
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在东盟地区和西方学习英语：日本多重寄居者的自我认同、特权和全球孤立
DOI：
10.1080/01434632.2020.1835928
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Yoko
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作者：
Kobayashi;Yoko
许多参与国际教育的人，包括学生和家长，都参与了一个踏脚石的话语，将非西方国家的英语教学确定为西方目的地中学后教育的准备阶段，最终目标是确保有竞争力的就业。本研究探讨了这种层次模式如何适用于日本英语学习者谁是定位在一个矛盾的日本背景下，冲突和新兴的英语学习价值观和实践共存：社会对就业中实用英语的需求有限，西方人对以英语为母语的人根深蒂固的理想化意识，以及东盟教师在线或在东盟国家学习英语的日益增长的形象。对85名在东盟国家和西方学习过英语的日本人的数字和书面数据的分析表明，一种灵活的、双向的流动性一方面来自他们作为持续的英语初学者的特权地位，另一方面来自他们分裂的自我认同--无论是作为一个亚洲非母语者还是一个先进的西化公民。这项研究提供了关于日本学生与寻求学位的国际学生群体的差异的教学和研究意义。
Many people involved in international education, including students and parents, engage in a stepping-stone discourse that identifies English-medium learning in non-Western countries as a preparatory stage for postsecondary education in Western destinations, with the ultimate goal to secure competitive employment. The present study examines how this hierarchical model applies to Japanese English learners who are positioned in an ambivalent Japanese context where conflicting and emerging English study values and practices coexist with one another: the limited societal need for practical English in employment, the entrenched ideological idealisation of ‘native’ English speakers from/in the West, and the growing profile of English study with ASEAN teachers online or in ASEAN countries. Analyses of numerical and written data from 85 Japanese who have studied English both in ASEAN countries and in the West reveal that a flexible, two-way mobility derives from their privileged status as persistently novice English learners on the one hand and their divided self-identity – either as an Asian non-native or an advanced Westernised citizen – on the other. This study provides both pedagogical and research implications regarding Japanese students’ divergence from the degree-seeking international student population.