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Ideology, Agency, and Intercultural Communicative Competence

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As this book explores the links between ideology and foreign language education in Japan, it is necessary to provide a historical view of broader educational and political realities shaping particular periods of this history , as well as particular ideological structures within this history. This facilitates the conceptualization of Japanese JHS English education as a context for ethnographic inquiry, and provides a background from which subsequent analyses of nihonjinron, native-speakerism, and ICC-oriented education in the Japanese educational context can take place.

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Bouchard, J. (2017). Exploring the Japanese EFL Classroom. In: Ideology, Agency, and Intercultural Communicative Competence. Intercultural Communication and Language Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3926-3_1

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