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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Rhetoric of "Japanese with English Abilities": Analyzing the Discourse of English Curriculum Reform and Its Problems with the Mext's 'Action Plan'
  name:
    name part: Watanabe, Ken
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Slattery, Patrick
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: In this thesis, I would examine the discourse of Japan's English language education reform for primary and secondary schools through the close reading of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology's (MEXT) "Action Plan: Cultivating 'Japanese with English Abilities'" released in 2003. This document marked a critical touchstone of Japan's drastic move for English curriculum change by suggesting the shift of national attitude from hesitancy to willingness in the name of change for the needs of language improvement. 'Action Plan' served as a master plan for the MEXT by providing the attainment goals, key tasks, and benchmarks that would see fit to achieve in the next five years. It raised the public awareness and stirred up the public debate, for containing challenging proposals such as implementation of standardized English exams (TOEIC and TOEFL) for student assessment and teaching qualification innovative teaching practices to high schools (i.e., Super English Language-High school[SEL-Hi]), and English as foreign language activities to primary schools. Specifically, first, I would discuss how Japan's cultural ambivalence toward English language since the late 19th century sets up the contexts for nation's historical struggle in upgrading the curriculum that draws the problems reflecting on the MEXT's recent education policy proposal. Then, I would examine Action Plan's attainment goals setting and key agendas highlighted as the MEXT's main strategy, and analyze its critical issues and problems affecting the needs for both students and teachers. The issues include the mismatched targets, ill-defined goals setting, and benchmarks for academic achievements and project proposals aimed for teacher training and quality instruction (i.e., JET program, and Assistant Language Teachers [ALTs]). Finally, I would provide the implications for Action Plan's impact on educational practice by assessing student's learning achievement and target benchmarks set for stud…
  note: by Ken Watanabe.
  note: "Major Subject: Curriculum and Instruction"
  note: Includes vita.
  note: Master of Science Texas A & M University 2013 http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/151630
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Thesis)
  subject:
    topic: Major Curriculum and Instruction
  subject:
    topic: Action Plan
  subject:
    topic: English Language Teaching (ELT)
  subject:
    topic: Japanese with English abilities
  subject:
    topic: attainment goals setting
  subject:
    topic: rhetoric
  subject:
    topic: ideology
  subject:
    topic: education reform
  subject:
    topic: internationalization
  subject:
    topic: Japan
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/151630
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 140623
    record change date: 20151206101825.0
    record identifier: in00003463266
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng