The English language is significant to the internationalisation of higher education worldwide.
Countries in Asia are proactive in appropriating English for their national interests, while …

A number of educators in recent years have argued that the dominance of English has
created structural and cultural inequalities between developed and developing countries …

This paper looks at how the Japanese government's educational policy documents define'
internationalisation'explicitly or implicitly, and how the policy is related to the relationships …

This study investigates the history of English language education in Japan over the past 150
years. For this purpose, tabulated representations have been devised which illustrate the …

In this paper, I shall first review the rapidly increasing role (s) English is playing in higher
education in both Europe and Asia, and argue that the shift to English is threatening the role …

Japanese society has a love–hate relationship with English. Many develop an antipathy
toward English, bred through preparing for demanding examinations that focus on the …

The sociologist Anthony Giddens has written that the era of late modernity in which we live is
characterized by a focus on and anxiety about identity.'What to do? How to act? Who to be …

By the beginning of the twenty-first century, the English language had become the de facto
lingua franca of the modern world. It is the most popular second or foreign language studied …

In light of the global spread of English and the concomitant growth of the English language
teaching industry, there has been much discussion about the 'ownership of …

Globalisation has accelerated the spread of English internationally, challenged nationalisms
and put nation states in a dilemma in which they have to promote English, a foreign …