What is it about?
Nowadays, English is used as an academic lingua franca in non-English speaking universities. This paper examines how such language situation influences Japanese students enrolled in an undergraduate English-taught program in terms of how they relate themselves and others in classroom.
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Why is it important?
The study reveals that language shift to students' non-native language (English) has a tremendous impact on their identity, which further influences their classroom performance. In other words, English is not a mere medium of instruction to students whose first language is not English. Focusing on students' inner selves helps us to better understand students' classroom behaviors.
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My research should be innovate in that it reveals the relationship between language of instruction and identity. I hope that this paper will provide educational implications to support students who are taking classes taught in English, which is not their first language.
Prof Miki Shibata
Hiroshima Daigaku
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This page is a summary of: Positional identities negotiated within a collective identity, Journal of English-Medium Instruction, May 2023, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/jemi.22013.shi.
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