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)