【简介】
本书收集了Kubota 博士的十余篇论文,展现了她在二语习得领域从 业二十余年来的研究发展脉络,体现了她学术志趣的变化和发展。本 书收集的论文共分为四个部分:二语写作中的文化、文化与语言教学 新思、二语教育中的人类多样性以及全球化、新自由主义与伦理。探 讨的话题从实际教学出发,反思作者本人作为教师和研究者的经历, 最终升华到语言与文化的关系,研究话题由小及大,论点新颖,见解 独特,相信本书能够为二语习得的研究者或语言教师提供一定的启示。
【Contents】
Introduction
Chapter 1 A Personal Trajectory of Scholarly Development
Part 1 Culture in Second Language Writing
Chapter 2 An Investigation of L1–L2 Transfer in Writing among Japanese University Students: Implications for Contrastive Rhetoric
Chapter 3 An Investigation of Japanese and English L1 Essay Organization: Differences and Similarities
Chapter 4 Toward Critical Contrastive Rhetoric
Chapter 5 Cross-cultural Perspectives on Writing: Contrastive Rhetoric
Chapter 6 Instruction and Reading Samples for Opinion Writing in L1 Junior High School Textbooks in China and Japan
Chapter 7 Unf inished Knowledge: The Story of Barbara
Part 2 Rethinking Culture and Language Teaching
Chapter 8 Japanese Culture Constructed by Discourses: Implications for Applied Linguistics Research and ELT
Chapter 9 Discursive Construction of the Images of U.S. Classrooms
Chapter 10 The Politics of Cultural Difference in Second Language Education
Chapter 11 Critical Multiculturalism and Second Language Education
Part 3 Human Diversity in Second Language Education
Chapter 12 The Author Responds: (Un)Raveling Racism in a Nice Field Like TESOL
Chapter 13 Race, Culture, and Identities in Second Language Education Introduction to Research and Practice
Chapter 14 New Approaches to Gender, Class, and Race in Second Language Writing
Part 4 Globalization, Neoliberalism, and Ethics
Chapter 15 Learning a Foreign Language as Leisure and Consumption: Enjoyment, Desire, and the Business of eikaiwa
Chapter 16 Questioning Linguistic Instrumentalism: English, Neoliberalism, and Language Tests in Japan
Chapter 17 “Language Is Only a Tool”: Japanese Expatriates Working in China and Implications for Language Teaching
Chapter 18 The Multi/Plural Turn, Postcolonial Theory, and Neoliberal Multiculturalism: Complicities and Implications for Applied Linguistics
Conclusion
Chapter 19 Continual Engagement with Reflexivity