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Title
  • ja Twitter Posts on English Language Learning in Japan : Attitudes Towards Neitibu （‘Native Speakers’）
  • en Twitter Posts on English Language Learning in Japan : Attitudes Towards Neitibu （‘Native Speakers’）
Creator
    • ja 釣井, 千恵 ja-Kana ツリイ, チエ
    • en TURII, Chie
Subject
  • Other en ideological nature of English (education)
  • Other en native-speakerism in ELT
  • Other en qualitative research
  • Other en social media discourse
  • Other en self-defeating attitude towards ‘native-speakers’
Description
  • Abstract To critically explore the ideological nature of English and English learning/ teaching in Japan, this study, as part of a multifaceted project, explores how attitudes towards English （or learning/teaching English） are displayed on the social media platform Twitter. First, I examined the results of the thematic analysis of Twitter discourse with an analytical viewpoint of native-speakerism, illustrating the underlying assumptions and inconsistencies in attitudes towards English learning. Then, I applied van Dijk’ s （2004） analytical framework and explored the recreation of the power relationship between ‘native speakers’ and ‘non-native speakers’ in the social media discourse. This study argues that hegemonic ideology is recreated by ‘ourselves’ by unintentionally applying inverted ‘ideological squares’ . This study focuses on Japanese society as a case study of learning English as a foreign language, revealing a self-defeating attitude towards ‘native-speakers’ , which potentially reinforces their own subjugation, in turn having implications for future studies in global contexts.
Publisher 桃山学院大学総合研究所
Date
    Issued2022-02-23
Language
  • eng
Resource Type departmental bulletin paper
Version Type VoR
Identifier URI https://stars.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/9484
Journal
    • NCID AA12704345
    • ISSN 21889031
      • ja 人間文化研究 en Journal of Humanities Research,St.Andrew's University
      • Volume Number16 Page Start1 Page End38
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Oaidate 2023-10-16