TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kobayashi,Yoko
TI  - Attitudes to English study among Japanese, Chinese and Korean women: motivations, expectations and identity 
T2  - Routledge research in language education
SN  - 1000221121
AV  - PE1068.E27 A88 2021eb
U1  - 428.0071/05 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY
PB  - Routledge
KW  - English language
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - East Asia
KW  - Foreign speakers
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Women
KW  - Language
KW  - Education (Higher)
KW  - English-speaking countries
KW  - East Asians
KW  - Bilingualism
KW  - fast
KW  - EDUCATION / Bilingual Education
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - EDUCATION / Adult & Continuing Education
KW  - EDUCATION / Language Experience Approach
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction / Yoko Kobayashi -- Study abroad, media and digital diaspora of Korean women / Youna Kim -- Japanese women's (re)negotiation of 'self/s' in Australian universities / Takae Ichimoto -- Going, returning or staying : Japanese women's motivations to study abroad / Eleni Oikonomidoy and Gwendolyn Williams -- Female language learners and workers : Japan versus its East Asian neighbors / Yoko Kobayashi -- Language as pure potential in Taiwan : case studies of six professional trajectories / Mark Seilhamer -- Dreams and realities : translating in South Korea / Jon H. Bahk-Halberg -- "How I wish English would actually save us women!" : anguish, ambivalence and agency among bilingual career women in Japan / Aya Kitamura -- Problems in the discourse of developing "Japanese who can play active roles around the world" : focusing on the life histories of English learners who turned into Japanese teachers / Nami Hirahata
N2  - "This edited book comprises chapters integrated around a central theme on college-educated Japanese, Korean and Chinese women's orientation to English study. The collection is composed of two parts: the first part discusses the international migration facilitated by factors characteristic of East Asian nations. The second part sheds light on the dreams and realities of East Asian women who, having been avid English learners, aim for 'dream jobs' or have few other career choices but to be re-trained as English specialists or even as Japanese language teachers working abroad"--
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ER  -