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Language on the Move
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- March 8, 2010
- 06:20 AM
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Child pornography and English language learning
by Kimie Takahashi in Language on the Move
“Child pornography and English language learning”?! Could there be a connection?! Difficult to believe but true – I’m referring to a best selling English phrase book for Japanese high school students, Moetan: English phrase book.
Moetan’s storyline involves a smart high school girl, Inku, who has a crush on her classmate, Nao, an underachiever. To [...]... Read more »
Ingrid Piller . (2010) At the intersection of gender, language and transnationalism. In Nikolas Coupland. Ed. . Handbook of Language and Globalisation. Malden, MA: Blackwell. . info:/
- February 16, 2010
- 08:56 AM
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Foreign nurses face the Kanji hurdle
by Kimie Takahashi in Language on the Move
Japan’s aging population and the growing number of young Japanese shunning ‘3D’ jobs (dirty, dangerous and demanding) has resulted in an increasing demand for foreign nurses and eldercare workers. In response, the Japanese government has recently started to recruit nurses and allied professionals from Indonesia and the Philippines under bilateral economic partnership agreements (EPA).
These Indonesian [...]... Read more »
Piller, I . (2011) Language, Migration, and Human Rights. In Wodak, Ruth, Paul Kerswill and Barbara Johnstone. Eds. Handbook of Sociolinguistics. . info:/
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