Capital, Commodity, and English Language Teaching illustrates how the drive for profit in
commercial ELT affects the manner in which language is taught. The book looks at …

Teacher Narratives from the Eikaiwa Classroom: Moving Beyond “McEnglish.” Edited by
Daniel Hooper and Natasha Hashimoto This book includes 16 chapters written by current …

This book is a study of cross-border activity in and around Japanese universities, employing
'Asia'as the cornerstone of inquiry. It offers qualitative, case-based analysis of Asia-oriented …

This book is an up-to-date critical examination of schooling in Japan by an expert in this
field. It focuses on developments in the last two decades, with a particular interest in social …

Private English conversation (eikaiwa) schools cover the entirety of Japan employing
thousands of teachers and representing a multibillion-yen industry (METI, 2017). These …

Teacher/researchers of diverse backgrounds worked collaboratively to deconstruct
nativespeakerism. Native-speakerist ideology has been recognized as an important issue …

This paper examines variations and shifts of emphasis in the 'internationalising
education'discourse and practice, and attempts to identify patterns in these variations. By …

The aims of this research are threefold. Firstly, to understand how the drive for profit in
commercial English language teaching (ELT) affects the manner in which language is …

This critical multi-case study involves a group of migrant eikaiwa (English conversation)
school teachers in Japan. The purpose of the study was to investigate the teachers' positions …

Within a range of learning theories from situated learning (Lave and Wenger, 1991) to the
zone of proximal development (ZPD) and scaffolding (Vygotsky, 1978), social situatedness …