摘要
日本在高等教育领域实施“顶尖全球化大学计划”,大学积极开展全英文学位项目,大力扩招留学生。对日本37所入选“顶尖全球化大学计划”试点大学多方面政策文件及资料的数据分析,揭示了在语言信念、实践和管理3个维度上,日本全英文学位项目在中观层面实施过程中不同语言间的冲突与竞争,反映了政策意图和政策实施之间的潜在矛盾。从语言意识形态的角度看,非英语国家的英文授课政策“全英文”可能是“唯英文”。
Abstract
Concomitant to the internationalization of higher education, Japan’s Ministry of Education announced a large-investment initiative of “Top Global University Project” in 2014. The “Top Global University Project” encourages developing English-medium instruction degree programs in Japanese universities with aims to attract overseas students and to cultivate a domestic pool of global talents. This paper addresses how the macro-level understanding of the aims and objectives of the language policy and planning of the “Top Global University Project” is translated into meso-level interpretation and implementation at Japanese universities. Drawing on Spolsky’s (2004) language policy framework, this study collects publicly available documents regarding language policy and planning from all 37 universities participating in the program and delineates the language requirements (in Japanese, English, and other languages) for enrollment in English-medium instruction degree programs at these universities as well as the language courses and services provided in these programs. Findings reveal contradictions between the intended English-medium instruction policy and its actual implementation at Japanese universities. The findings are further discussed from the perspective of language ideology on the implementation of English-medium policies in non-Anglophone countries, problematizing the implementation of English-medium policies as English-only-medium policies.
关键词
顶尖全球化大学计划 /
教育语言政策与规划 /
全英文学位项目 /
日本 /
留学生
Key words
Top Global University Project /
language policy in education /
English-medium instruction degree program /
Japan /
oversea students
邱译曦,郑咏滟.
日本高校全英文学位项目的语言政策和规划[J]. 语言战略研究. 2021, 6(2): 47-55 https://doi.org/10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20210204
Qiu Yixi and Zheng Yongyan.
Language Policy and Planning in Japan’s English as Medium of Instruction Degree Programs in Higher Education[J]. Chinese Journal of Language Policy and Planning. 2021, 6(2): 47-55 https://doi.org/10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20210204
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