Internationalising Japan: Nihonjinron and the intercultural in Japanese language-in-education policy

Journal of Multicultural Discourses

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 32-46

  Liddicoat, Anthony J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Interculturality; Japan; Language learning; Nationalism; Policy discourse

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249142437     PISSN: 17447143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2167/md043.0     Document Type: Article

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