Publications

Publication details [#56451]

Sakamoto, Masahiro. 2012. Moving towards effective English language teaching in Japan: issues and challenges. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 33 (4) : 409–420.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual education | foreign language teaching | language attitude | language of instruction | language policy

Language as a subject

English | Japanese

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper explores opposition and obstacles to Japanese language-in-education innovations, meant to effectively introduce bilingual and immersion programmes comparable to those in Europe, North America and other Asian countries.