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.
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.
Qiu Yixi and Zheng Yongyan. Language Policy and Planning in Japan’s English as Medium of Instruction Degree Programs in Higher Education. , 2021, 6(2): 47-55.
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