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Product Description: How do teachers who have chosen to settle down in one country manage the difficulties of living and teaching English in that country? How do they develop and sustain their careers, and what factors shape their identity? This book answers these questions by investigating the personal and professional identity development of ten Western women who teach English in various educational contexts in Japan, all of whom have Japanese spouses...read more

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9781783095209 | Multilingual Matters Ltd, April 7, 2016, cover price $169.95 | About this edition: How do teachers who have chosen to settle down in one country manage the difficulties of living and teaching English in that country?

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Product Description: The book examines how task-based language teaching (TBLT) can be carried out with young beginner learners in a foreign language context. It addresses how TBLT can be introduced and implemented in a difficult instructional context where traditional teaching approaches are entrenched...read more

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9789027207333 | John Benjamins Pub Co, March 24, 2016, cover price $143.00 | About this edition: The book examines how task-based language teaching (TBLT) can be carried out with young beginner learners in a foreign language context.

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9789027207340 | John Benjamins Pub Co, March 24, 2016, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: The book examines how task-based language teaching (TBLT) can be carried out with young beginner learners in a foreign language context.

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Product Description: Based on a state-of-the-art review of prior research in all related domains, this book makes precise predictions about the expected effects of specific type and token frequency distributions in input floods and tests these in the second language classroom context.

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9783110399622 | Mouton De Gruyter, November 3, 2015, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: Based on a state-of-the-art review of prior research in all related domains, this book makes precise predictions about the expected effects of specific type and token frequency distributions in input floods and tests these in the second language classroom context.

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Product Description: Listening in a second language is challenge for students and teachers alike. This book provides a personal account of an action research intervention involving listening strategy instruction that investigated the viability of this innovative pedagogy in the Japanese university context...read more

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9781137521897 | Palgrave Macmillan, July 22, 2015, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Listening in a second language is challenge for students and teachers alike.

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Product Description: This book uses a narrative-oriented approach to shed light on the processes of identity construction and development among Japanese university students of English. The research highlights the instrumental agency of individuals in responding to and acting upon the social environment, and in developing, maintaining and/or reconstructing their identities as L2 users...read more

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9781783093816 | Multilingual Matters Ltd, July 16, 2015, cover price $139.95 | About this edition: This book uses a narrative-oriented approach to shed light on the processes of identity construction and development among Japanese university students of English.

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Product Description: The Role of English Teaching in Modern Japan examines the complex nature of Japan’s promotion of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). In globalized societies where people with different native languages communicate through English, multicultural and multilinguistic interactions are widely created...read more

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9780415841283 | Routledge, October 28, 2014, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: The Role of English Teaching in Modern Japan examines the complex nature of Japan’s promotion of English as a Foreign Language (EFL).

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Product Description: In a world in which global communication is becoming ever more important and in which English is increasingly being positioned as the pre-eminent international language, Japan presents a particularly compelling case for the examination of the realities of English as a global language...read more
By Philip Seargeant (editor)

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9780230237667 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 15, 2011, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: Leading scholars in the field examine the role played by the English language in contemporary Japanese society.

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9781137439147 | Reprint edition (Palgrave Macmillan, July 16, 2014), cover price $36.00 | About this edition: In a world in which global communication is becoming ever more important and in which English is increasingly being positioned as the pre-eminent international language, Japan presents a particularly compelling case for the examination of the realities of English as a global language.

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Product Description: This book synthesises current theory and research on L2 motivation in the EFL Japanese context carried out by internationally recognized researchers and upcoming researcher-educators working in various educational contexts in Japan...read more
By Terry Fellner (editor)

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9781783090501 | Multilingual Matters Ltd, October 15, 2013, cover price $179.95

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9781783090495 | Multilingual Matters Ltd, October 15, 2013, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: This book synthesises current theory and research on L2 motivation in the EFL Japanese context carried out by internationally recognized researchers and upcoming researcher-educators working in various educational contexts in Japan.

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Product Description: This book contributes to the growing field of EFL teacher identity, which is now recognized to influence numerous aspects of classroom teaching and of student learning. It focuses on an under-researched, and yet highly influential group of teachers that shape English language education in Japan: Japanese university English teachers...read more

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9781847696472 | Multilingual Matters Ltd, February 15, 2012, cover price $129.95 | About this edition: This book contributes to the growing field of EFL teacher identity, which is now recognized to influence numerous aspects of classroom teaching and of student learning.

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9781847696465 | Multilingual Matters Ltd, February 15, 2012, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: This book contributes to the growing field of EFL teacher identity, which is now recognized to influence numerous aspects of classroom teaching and of student learning.

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Product Description: This book examines the ways in which English is conceptualised as a global language in Japan, and considers how the resultant language ideologies – drawn in part from universal discourses; in part from context-specific trends in social history – inform the relationships that people in Japan have towards the language...read more

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9781847692023 | Multilingual Matters Ltd, August 15, 2009, cover price $99.95 | About this edition: This book examines the ways in which English is conceptualised as a global language in Japan, and considers how the resultant language ideologies – drawn in part from universal discourses; in part from context-specific trends in social history – inform the relationships that people in Japan have towards the language.

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9781847692016 | Multilingual Matters Ltd, August 15, 2009, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: This book examines the ways in which English is conceptualised as a global language in Japan, and considers how the resultant language ideologies – drawn in part from universal discourses; in part from context-specific trends in social history – inform the relationships that people in Japan have towards the language.

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Product Description: This book is intended for learners and teachers of English to Japanese students who struggle with sounds that do not exist in Japanese or are confusing to the Japanese ear, especially 'f' and 'v', 'l' and 'r' and 'w', in order to avoid the typical 'Japlish' mispronunciations...read more

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9781898823506 | Univ of Hawaii Pr, January 30, 2009, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: This book is intended for learners and teachers of English to Japanese students who struggle with sounds that do not exist in Japanese or are confusing to the Japanese ear, especially 'f' and 'v', 'l' and 'r' and 'w', in order to avoid the typical 'Japlish' mispronunciations.

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Product Description: The view of exemplar-based second language learning emphasizes the importance of frequency in learning grammar. According to this view, type frequency rather than token frequency contributes to learning generalized knowledge beyond item-based constructions...read more

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9783039116027 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, April 30, 2008, cover price $72.95 | About this edition: The view of exemplar-based second language learning emphasizes the importance of frequency in learning grammar.

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Product Description: Language and Education in Japan offers the first critical ethnography of bilingual education in Japan. Based on two-year fieldwork at five different schools, the book examines the role of schools in the unequal distribution of bilingualism as cultural capital...read more

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9780230506947 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 4, 2008, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Language and Education in Japan offers the first critical ethnography of bilingual education in Japan.

Product Description: Until now, there has been relatively little research on the links between motivation and learning experiences within the domain of language learning. This volume attempts to fill that gap. It explores the developmental processes of intrinsic motivation and of autonomy in foreign language learning and investigates the links between learners’ educational experiences and ways in which such learners develop certain types of motivation...read more

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9780820475387 | 1st edition (Peter Lang Pub Inc, June 30, 2006), cover price $61.95 | About this edition: Until now, there has been relatively little research on the links between motivation and learning experiences within the domain of language learning.
9783039105342 | 1 edition (Peter Lang Pub Inc, June 30, 2006), cover price $82.95 | About this edition: Until now, there has been relatively little research on the links between motivation and learning experiences within the domain of language learning.

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Product Description: This book is a collection of eight articles by leading scholars investigating of the acquisition of English by native speakers of Japanese. It deals with a wide range of topics from the acquisiton of VP structures to functional categories and presents new empirical data...read more

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9783110176599 | Mouton De Gruyter, December 1, 2002, cover price $196.00 | About this edition: This book is a collection of eight articles by leading scholars investigating of the acquisition of English by native speakers of Japanese.

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Product Description: Face-threatening speech acts such as refusals present particular problems for all human beings. These problems are exacerbated when individuals are not familiar with the culture in which these speech acts must be performed and do not have the communicative or linguistic facility to fully express their meanings...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9783110163865 | Mouton De Gruyter, August 1, 1999, cover price $154.00 | About this edition: Language acquisition is a human endeavor par excellence.

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9783110163872 | Mouton De Gruyter, July 1, 2000, cover price $40.45 | About this edition: Face-threatening speech acts such as refusals present particular problems for all human beings.

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Product Description: This guide to teaching English in Japan gives practical information on the different types of teaching jobs available and how to find them, plus tips on living in Japan. It also includes advice on preparing a lesson plan, methods, and approaches, and class management.

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9780844208756 | 2 edition (Ntc Pub Group, September 1, 1995), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This guide to teaching English in Japan gives practical information on the different types of teaching jobs available and how to find them, plus tips on living in Japan.

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Product Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade Paperback.
By Liz Netzel (illustrator) and John Wharton

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9780911285000 | 5th edition (Global Pr, April 1, 1993), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Product Description: Through an investigation and description of the campaign conducted by the Rockefeller-funded English Language Exploratory Committee (ELEC) to revolutionize English-language-teaching practices in Japan, Henrichsen addresses the issue of how internationally oriented reformers of educational systems and practices can go about creating change and dealing with resistance to it...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780313266171 | Praeger Pub Text, December 1, 1989, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: Through an investigation and description of the campaign conducted by the Rockefeller-funded English Language Exploratory Committee (ELEC) to revolutionize English-language-teaching practices in Japan, Henrichsen addresses the issue of how internationally oriented reformers of educational systems and practices can go about creating change and dealing with resistance to it.

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