36.2755, Books: Navigating English Policy and Practice in Japan’s Primary Schools: Ferguson (2025)

[The LINGUIST List]

LINGUIST List: Vol-36-2755. Tue Sep 16 2025. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 36.2755, Books: Navigating English Policy and Practice in Japan’s Primary Schools: Ferguson (2025)

Moderator: Steven Moran (linguist at linguistlist.org)
Managing Editor: Valeriia Vyshnevetska
Team: Helen Aristar-Dry, Mara Baccaro, Daniel Swanson
Jobs: jobs at linguistlist.org | Conferences: callconf at linguistlist.org | Pubs: pubs at linguistlist.org

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

Editor for this issue: Mara Baccaro <mara at linguistlist.org>

================================================================


Date: 15-Sep-2025
From: Flo McClelland [flo at multilingual-matters.com]
Subject: Navigating English Policy and Practice in Japan’s Primary Schools: Ferguson (2025)


Title: Navigating English Policy and Practice in Japan’s Primary
Schools
Series Title: Early Language Learning in School Contexts
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Multilingual Matters
           http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
Book URL:
https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/?K=9781836681519

Author(s): Peter Ferguson

Hbk ISBN 9781836681519 £109.95 / US$139.95 / €129.95
EPUB ISBN 9781836681533 £20.00 / US$25.00 / €23.00
PDF ISBN 9781836681526 £20.00 / US$25.00 / €23.00

Abstract:

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.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics




------------------------------------------------------------------------------

********************** LINGUIST List Support ***********************
Please consider donating to the Linguist List, a U.S. 501(c)(3) not for profit organization:

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=87C2AXTVC4PP8

LINGUIST List is supported by the following publishers:

Bloomsbury Publishing http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/

Cambridge University Press http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics

Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/

De Gruyter Brill https://www.degruyterbrill.com/?changeLang=en

Edinburgh University Press http://www.edinburghuniversitypress.com

John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/

Language Science Press http://langsci-press.org

MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/

Multilingual Matters http://www.multilingual-matters.com/

Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG http://www.narr.de/

Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT) http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Peter Lang AG http://www.peterlang.com


----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-36-2755
----------------------------------------------------------