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Exploratory Quantitative Analysis of Medical Fitness in the Elderly : Referencing the Comparison between Non-Exercisers and Exercisers
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The recent shift toward "globalization" in language policy in Japan : A critical analysis of recent language policy
Get PDFThe impact of neoliberal globalization on the English language has been hotly debated in
various countries (Heller, 2003; Jeon, 2012). In Japan, since the economic growth of the 1980s,
the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) has proposed
various policies to fit the demands of globalization. In 2013, the MEXT published a new
policy named “English Education Reform Plan corresponding to Globalization” and related
policies. By employing Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), this research critically investigates
recent English educational policy in view of present-day ideologies of English language in
Japan. This paper examines how Japan's notion of globalization shapes and is shaped by its
foreign language policy related to neoliberal globalization as currently conceptualized by
MEXT during the current Administrations. The findings show that recent Japanese policies
aim to promote: 1) people who can actively work in global society with support from business
industries; 2) an “elite” who have commodified English skills in globalization; 3) an imagined
tool of English for communication, and 4) use of external proficiency tests in order to measure
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Toward a Multispecies Organization Study : Questions in the Anthropocene
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Didactic proofs for the surface area of a sphere and the chi-square density
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