Publications

Publication details [#64735]

Kobayashi, Yoko. 2018. The neo-liberal notion of global language skills vs. monolingual corporate culture: co-existence or rivalry? Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 39 (8) : 729–739.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

applied linguistics | education | gender | monolingualism | multilingualism

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

While equally known for their countrywide ‘education/English craze’ and global economies, South Korea and Japan diverge notably in their upper/middle-class citizens’ (non)practice of overseas educational migration and leading companies’ (non)hiring of overseas-educated youth with language abilities.