Englishization in Asia : The Development of Malaysia's Private Higher Education and its Effects on Social Formations in Ethnic, National and Regional Contexts

2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19402036
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 海外学術
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Sophia University
• Principal Investigator: YOSHINO Kosaku Sophia University, 総合人間科学部, 教授 (50192810)
• Project Period (FY): 2007 – 2010
• Keywords: グローバル化 / 高等教育 / 英語 / エスニシティ / 国際移動 / マレーシア / 留学生

Research Abstract

This study examines the invention and development of Malaysia's transnational and English-medium private higher education and its effects on social relations and networks. What may be referred to as the Malaysian model of higher education has impacted ethnic relations, social classes and nationalism in Malaysia as well as patterns of migration of students between Asia and the West. Moreover, the model is now being diffused to other (mostly, developing) countries. Particular attention is drawn to multicultural and multilingual Malaysians who play the role of cultural intermediaries in this process. The study also suggests that the Englishization of higher education works as a medium in connecting Malaysia's ethnicities to broader, transnational categories of 'civilizations'.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] The dominance of English : critical discourses and a sociological approach (2010)
  • Author(s): Kosaku Yoshino
  • Journal Title: Sociological Studies(Sophia University) 34 Pages: 1-17
• [Presentation] Multiethnicity and its transnational connections : the Malaysian experience (2011)
  • Author(s): Kosaku Yoshino
  • Organizer: Workshop on "Migration and Multicultual Coexistence in East Asia"(organized by the Institute of Comparative Culture Sophia University and Peace and Democracy Institute, Korean University, sponsored by the National Research Foundation, Republic of Korea)
  • Place of Presentation: held at Sophia University, Tokyo
  • Year and Date: 2011-02-19
• [Presentation] Further Reflections on Japanese Sociology (2010)
  • Author(s): Kosaku Yoshino
  • Organizer: Conference on 'Japanese Studies in Japan and its Neighbors'(organized by the University of Niigata Prefecture)
  • Place of Presentation: held at the University of Tokyo
  • Year and Date: 2010-10-18
• [Presentation] The Englishisation of Asia and global social structure : a sociological enquiry(Invited lecture, School of Language Studies and Linguistics, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia) (2010)
  • Author(s): Kosaku Yoshino
  • Place of Presentation: Bangi Malaysia
  • Year and Date: 2010-03-23
• [Presentation] The Englishization of higher education in Asia and the migratory flows of international students (2009)
  • Author(s): Kosaku Yoshino
  • Organizer: Symposium on 'The Right to Move? : Debating the ethics of global migration'(supported by the Carnegie Council and the Institute of Comparative Culture)
  • Place of Presentation: held at Sophia University, Tokyo
  • Year and Date: 2009-12-12
• [Presentation] Malays ia and it's Inter-Asian connections(Invited lecture, Pacific Basin Institute, Pomona College) (2008)
  • Author(s): Kosaku Yoshino
  • Place of Presentation: Claremont, California, USA
  • Year and Date: 2008-02-27
• [Book] 『公共社会学』(第1巻所収)(論文表題は「多民族社会における高等教育の公共性-マレーシアにおける国家と民間」) (2011)
  • Author(s): 吉野耕作、盛山和夫・上野千鶴子・武川省吾共編
  • Publisher: 東京大学出版会
• [Book] Englishization in Asia: Language and Cultural Issues(論文標題は'Englishization of higher education in Asia : a sociological enquiry') (2009)
  • Author(s): Kosaku Yoshino, in Kwok-kan Tam (ed.)
  • Total Pages: 70-87
  • Publisher: Open University of Hong Kong Press