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In this chapter I discuss the roles that the politics of identities play in the construction of a second language textbook for Japanese junior high school students. The chapter begins with a précis of some of the contexts of the matter, including the textbook itself, institutional issues, and methodological matters.
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Hardy, T. (2015). Identity, Place, and Language. In: Horiguchi, S., Imoto, Y., Poole, G.S. (eds) Foreign Language Education in Japan. Critical New Literacies: The Praxis of English Language Teaching and Learning (Pelt). SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-325-4_3
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