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Japanese as Foreign Language in the Age of Globalization
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2008, ISBN 978-3-89129-854-1, € 33.-, iudicium Verlag, München, 268 p. [Order]Authors
Sugita, Yuko
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Japanese as Foreign Language in the Age of Globalization
In our globalizing world of today, the significance, status and demand of languages are experiencing changes which are unmatched in human history. These changes also relate to the languages of Japan as well as to the way that they are being taught and studied. In this book 14 authors from four continents present their research results on Japanese as foreign language (JFL) in the age of globalization. The participation of these authors reflects the fact that research into JFL has itself become global. Since JFL in the age of globalization is a field too extensive to be comprehensively covered by a single book, we restricted ourselves to three topics which we believe are central in discussing this issue.
- New kinds of language learners and new teaching paradigms
- Native – non-native speaker interaction or contact situations in a more general sense
- New insights into cognitive processes in language learning
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Japanese as Foreign Language in the early twenty-first century – policy learners and native speakers
pp. 19-32
Japanese as Foreign Language in European universities – new students and/or new teaching paradigm?
pp. 33-50
Speech perception across languages and writing systems – lessons for Japanese as Foreign Language from a commercial research project
pp. 87-94
Reference introduction in speech and gesture – a comparison of Dutch and Japanese
pp. 189-206
’Estimations’ in Japanese – some empirical investigations and consequences for Japanese as Foreign Language
pp. 227-260