Publications

Publication details [#42893]

Ando, Yuka. 2005. Japanese language instruction and the question of ‘‘correctness’’. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 175,176 : 271–284.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | correctness | foreign language teaching | instructing1

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

As Japanese language teachers notice using more ‘‘correct’’ Japanese in the classrooms than in their own everyday usage, which often leads to overcorrection of students' speech, this article proposes a critical reexamination of the notion of correctness.