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Title
  • en Twitter Posts on English Language Learning in Japan : Attitudes Towards Neitibu （‘Native Speakers’）
Alternative
  • ja Twitter Posts on English Language Learning in Japan : Attitudes Towards Neitibu （‘Native Speakers’）
Creator
    • ja 釣井, 千恵
Subject
  • Other ideological nature of English (education)
  • Other native-speakerism in ELT
  • Other qualitative research
  • Other social media discourse
  • Other self-defeating attitude towards ‘native-speakers’
Description
  • Other To critically explore the ideological nature of English and English learning/teaching in Japan, this study, as part of a multifaceted project, explores howattitudes towards English （or learning/teaching English） are displayed on thesocial media platform Twitter. First, I examined the results of the thematicanalysis of Twitter discourse with an analytical viewpoint of native-speakerism,illustrating the underlying assumptions and inconsistencies in attitudes towardsEnglish learning. Then, I applied van Dijk’ s （2004） analytical framework andexplored the recreation of the power relationship between ‘native speakers’and ‘non-native speakers’ in the social media discourse. This study argues thathegemonic ideology is recreated by ‘ourselves’ by unintentionally applyinginverted ‘ideological squares’ . This study focuses on Japanese society as acase study of learning English as a foreign language, revealing a self-defeatingattitude towards ‘native-speakers’ , which potentially reinforces their ownsubjugation, in turn having implications for future studies in global contexts.
Publisher 桃山学院大学総合研究所
Date
    Created2022-02-03 , Issued2022-02-23
Language
  • eng
Resource Type departmental bulletin paper
Version Type VoR
Identifier URI http://id.nii.ac.jp/1420/00009423/
Journal
    • NCID AA12704345
    • ISSN 2188-9031
      • 人間文化研究 = Journal of Humanities Research,St.Andrew's University 16, 1-38
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Oaidate 2022-06-20