Attitudes to English Study among Japanese, Chinese and Korean Women (eBook, ePUB)

Motivations, Expectations and Identity
Redaktion: Kobayashi, Yoko

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This edited book comprises chapters integrated around a central theme on college-educated Japanese, Korean and Chinese women's orientation to English study.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000221121
• Artikelnr.: 60129020

Autorenporträt

Yoko Kobayashi (PhD, University of Toronto) is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Iwate University. Her book, The Evolution of English Language Learners in Japan: Crossing Japan, the West, and South East Asia (2018), has recently been published by Routledge.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction (Yoko Kobayashi) Part I: East Asian Female Students'
Motivation to Study in the West 1. Study abroad, Media and Digital Diaspora
of Korean Women (Youna Kim) 2. Japanese Women's (Re)negotiation of 'Self/s'
in Australian Universities (Takae Ichimoto) 3. Gender Returning or Staying:
Japanese Women's Motivations to Study Abroad (Eleni Oikonomidoy and
Gwendolyn Williams) Part II: East Asian Women's Lives after Their English
Study at College 4. Female Language Learners and Workders: Japan versus its
East Asian Neighbors (Yoko Kobayashi) 5. Language as Pure Potential in
Taiwan: Case Studies of Six Professional Trajectories (Mark Seilhamer) 6.
Dreams and Realities: Translating in South Korea (Jon H. Bahk-Halberg) 7.
"How I Wish English Would Actually Save Us Women!": Anguish, Ambivalence
and Agency among Bilingual Career Women in Japan (Aya Kitamura) 8. Problems
in the Discourse of Developing "Japanese Who Can Play Active Roles around
the World": Focusing on the Life Histories of English Learners who Turned
into Japanese Teachers (Nami Hirahata)