YVONNE BRECKENRIDGE Instructor in English for Academic Purposes, University of Alberta, Canada
ELIZABETH J. ERLING Lecturer in English Language Teaching, Open University, UK
LAUREL KAMADA Senior Lecturer at Tohoku University, Japan
RYUKO KUBOTA Professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
AYA MATSUDA Assistant Professor of English, Arizona State University, USA
YUKO MATSUMOTO Lecturer of Business Communication, University of Macau, China
MASUKO MIYAHARA Teacher in the College of Liberal Arts at International Christian University (ICU), Tokyo, Japan
ANDREW MOODY Associate Professor of English, University of Macau, China
ALISON STEWART Teacher, Gakushuin University, Japan
JAMES W. TOLLEFSON Professor Emeritus, University of Washington, USA, and Professor in the Department of Media, Communication, and Culture, at the Graduate School of Public Policy and Social Research, and the Institute for Educational Research and Service, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan
MAI YAMAGAMI Doctoral student in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
YASUKATA YANO Professor Emeritus of Applied Linguistics, Waseda University, Japan

Focusing on the ways in which globalization is influencing language practices in the country, this book examines the role played by the English language in contemporary Japanese society

List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; P.Seargeant PART I: ENGLISH IN THE EDUCATION SYSTEM Elite Discourses of Globalization in Japan; M.Yamagami & J.W.Tollefson 'Not Everyone Can Be A Star'; A.Matsuda Parallel Universes; A.Stewart & M.Miyahara The Native Speaker English Teacher and the Politics of Globalization in Japan; Y.Breckenridge & E.J.Erling Immigration, Diversity, and Language Education in Japan; R.Kubota PART II: ENGLISH IN SOCIETY AND CULTURE English as an International Language and 'Japanese English'; [...] The Position of English for a New Sector of 'Japanese' Youths; L.Kamada The Ideal Speaker of Japanese English as Portrayed in 'Language Entertainment' Television; [...] & Y.Matsumoto The Symbolic Meaning of Visual English in the Social Landscape of Japan; P.Seargeant Index