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ATTITUDES TO ENGLISH STUDY AMONG JAPANESE, CHINESE AND KOREA IBD

ROUTLEDGE
05 / 2022
9780367610753
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Sinopsis

This edited book comprises chapters integrated around a central theme on college-educated Japanese, Korean, and Chinese womenâÇÖs orientation to English study. The collection is composed of two parts: (1) East Asian womenâÇÖs motivation to study in the West and (2) East Asian womenâÇÖs dream to use English as a career. The first part discusses their international migration as facilitated by factors characteristic of East Asian nations (e.g. middle-class womenâÇÖs access to advanced education and yet unequal access to professional career) and other factors inherent in each nation (e.g. different social evaluations of women equipped with competitive overseas degrees and English proficiency). The second part sheds light on the dreams and realities of East Asian female adults who, having been avid English learners, aim for 'dream jobs' (e.g. interpreters) or have few other career choices but to be re-trained as English specialists or even as Japanese language teachers working abroad. This collection is suitable for any scholar interested in the lives and voices of young educated women who strive to empower themselves with language skills in the seemingly promising neoliberal worldáthat is, however, riddled with ideological contradictions.

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70,84