Foreign Language Education in Japan: Qualitative Approaches edited by Sachiko Horiguchi, Yuki Imoto, and Gregory S. Poole

1. Foreign Language
Education in Japan:
Exploring
Qualitative
Approaches
Book launch

2. The book project
“Changes and Continuities in Japanese
Educational Institutions: Foreign Language
Education and the Discourses of Multi‐
Culturalism” panel at AJJ (Anthropology of
Japan in Japan), Temple University Japan
Campus (here!) in fall 2009~

3. Uniqueness
*Collaboration of anthropologists and
applied linguists in Japan/elsewhere, both ‘Japanese’
& ‘foreign’, taking qualitative approaches to language
education (mainly English language education) in
Japan
*Explores various levels: local/ global, policy,
educational institution, classroom, individual
*Discussion questions for classroom use

4. Chapters
National policy (Lee & Doerr on Japanese
language schools, Hardy on English textbooks)
Institutions (Murata on university students &
skilled foreign workers, Imoto & Horiguchi, Poole
& Takahashi)
Classrooms (Katayama)
Individuals (Matikainen, Matsuoka, Rosenkjar)

5. Please see the flyer
!20% discount!

6. Roundtable Part I: Qualitative
approaches to individuals in
foreign language education
Chair: Gregory Poole (Doshisha University)
Panelists:
Tiina Matikainen (International Christian University)
Rieko Matsuoka (National College of Nursing)
Patrick Rosenkjar (Temple University Japan Campus)

7. Roundtable Part II: Qualitative
approaches to institutions and
classrooms in foreign language
education
Chair: Yuki Imoto (Keio University)
Panelists:
Gregory Poole (Doshisha University)
Sachiko Horiguchi (Temple University Japan Campus)
Akiko Katayama (University of Tokyo)