"If you wait, nothing will come" : returned Japanese student sojourners' shifting identities and perceptions of English

In Japan, discourses of globalization have come in chorus with an urgency in educational policy to raise personal and national English proficiency for individual and economic success (e.g. Kobayashi, 2011; Kubota 2013; Yamagami & Tollefson, 2011). Given that “study abroad” is often perceived as...

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Main Author: Williams, Elisabeth
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/46403