The Representational Parameters of the Native Speaker in Japanese Higher Education
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26770193
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Foreign language education
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| Research Institution | Future University-Hakodate |
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Principal Investigator |
Rivers Damian 公立はこだて未来大学, システム情報科学部, 准教授 (00515455)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥260,000 (Direct Cost: ¥200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥60,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
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| Keywords | Native Speaker / Native-Speakerism / Representation / Higher Education / Employment / native speaker / discourse / representation / semiotics / ネイティブスピーカー / 高等教育 / 教員募集 / 言語イデオロギー |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Overall, Japanese higher education shows "an enduring reluctance to tackle issues of 'native-speaker' based employment, conflations with nationality, and the racialized assumptions underpinning both" (Rivers & Ross, 2013: 328). Non-Japanese nationality teachers labelled as "native speaker" are positioned to perform to a fixed burden of representation related to occidental stereotypes further fueled by various native-speaker fallacies. This burden provides the structure to regulate workplace interactions, experiences and expectations in a way which promotes differential treatment and inequity. The consequences of such practices being normative have been shown to include unstable employment, marginalization and exclusion within the workplace, anxiety and poor mental health, unresolved frustration and cynicism, poor or non-existent relationships with colleagues, and difficulties in establishing a professional identity on the basis of earned rather than unearned criteria.
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Report
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Research Products
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[Presentation] Privilege and Marginalization in English Language Teaching: Beyond Essentialization and Idealization2017
Author(s)
Yazan, B., Aneja, G., Park, G., Rivers, D.J. and Kubota, R.
Organizer
American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2017 Conference
Place of Presentation
Portland, OR, USA
Year and Date
2017-03-21
Related Report
Int'l Joint Research / Invited
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