Two sides of the same coin Nihonjinron and native-speakerism in a Japanese lower secondary school English language textbook

More and more scholars have been advocating the intercultural approach to language education, which is based on plurilingualism, pluriculturalism, and interculturalism. However, in the Japanese school context there are ideological impediments to this approach: nihonjinron and native-speakerism. Niho...

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Main Author: Shirahata, Mai
Other Authors: Humanistis-yhteiskuntatieteellinen tiedekunta, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Kieli- ja viestintätieteiden laitos, Department of Language and Communication Studies, Jyväskylän yliopisto, University of Jyväskylä
Format: Master's thesis
Language:eng
Published: 2018
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Online Access: https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/60608
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description More and more scholars have been advocating the intercultural approach to language education, which is based on plurilingualism, pluriculturalism, and interculturalism. However, in the Japanese school context there are ideological impediments to this approach: nihonjinron and native-speakerism. Nihonjinron is an attempt to construct a cultural and national identity of the Japanese; native-speakerism is linguistic stereotyping, which gives privileges to certain speakers of a particular language over other speakers. The aim of this study is to illustrate how nihonjinron and native-speakerism are reconstructed through stereotypical portrayals of people in different nationality/ethnic groups within a Japan’s lower secondary school English language textbook. Images and texts in the chosen textbook were analyzed with the use of Critical Discourse Analysis. This study revealed that: People with particular characteristics consistent with nihonjinron and native-speakerism appeared in the textbook; the ingroup/outgroup status of a nationality/ethnic group in the textbook was consistent with the status of the group in terms of nihonjinron and native-speakerism; nihonjinron and native-speakerism coexisted in the textbook. The findings indicate that nihonjinron and native-speakerism were sophisticatedly reconstructed within the textbook by selecting particular nationality/ethnic groups to appear and depicting them in particular ways. Furthermore, it is implied that native-speakerism may have been reinforcing nihonjinron in the textbook. This study suggests that school English teachers in Japan should critically look at cultural stereotypes embedded in textbooks for practicing intercultural language teaching in their classrooms.
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title Two sides of the same coin : Nihonjinron and native-speakerism in a Japanese lower secondary school English language textbook
title_full Two sides of the same coin : Nihonjinron and native-speakerism in a Japanese lower secondary school English language textbook
title_fullStr Two sides of the same coin : Nihonjinron and native-speakerism in a Japanese lower secondary school English language textbook Two sides of the same coin : Nihonjinron and native-speakerism in a Japanese lower secondary school English language textbook
title_full_unstemmed Two sides of the same coin : Nihonjinron and native-speakerism in a Japanese lower secondary school English language textbook Two sides of the same coin : Nihonjinron and native-speakerism in a Japanese lower secondary school English language textbook
title_short Two sides of the same coin
title_sort two sides of the same coin nihonjinron and native speakerism in a japanese lower secondary school english language textbook
title_sub Nihonjinron and native-speakerism in a Japanese lower secondary school English language textbook
title_txtP Two sides of the same coin : Nihonjinron and native-speakerism in a Japanese lower secondary school English language textbook
topic Nihonjinron native-speakerism intercultural language education kulttuurienvälinen viestintä Master's Degree Programme in Intercultural Communication 3134 englannin kieli ideologiat stereotypiat kulttuurienvälisyys kielikasvatus kulttuuri (toimintatavat) English language ideologies stereotypies interculturalism language education culture
topic_facet 3134 English language Master's Degree Programme in Intercultural Communication Nihonjinron culture englannin kieli ideologiat ideologies intercultural language education interculturalism kielikasvatus kulttuuri (toimintatavat) kulttuurienvälinen viestintä kulttuurienvälisyys language education native-speakerism stereotypiat stereotypies
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