How graduate students in the humanities / social sciences English Medium Program evaluate their language life?

• NONOGUCHI Chitose

  Konan University

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 人文・社会科学系英語学位プログラムの大学院生は自身の言語生活をどう評価するか
• The language life evaluation of the parties via Personal Attitude Construct analysis
• PAC（個人別態度構造）分析による当事者評価

Abstract

Recently, English Medium Programs (EMP) have increased due to the internationalization of universities, even in the humanities and social sciences. Most students of these English Medium Programs in Japan are multilingual speakers. This study investigates the language life evaluation of the parties via Personal Attitude Construct (PAC) analysis of one international student from the EMP of the Graduate School of Social Sciences and one returning student from the EMP of the Graduate School of Humanities. Results show that both are satisfied with their research life in English, but are more or less dissatisfied and have an oppressive attitude construct in aspects of their language life, such as interactions with Japanese students, part-time jobs, and job hunting. They felt that Japanese society was closed, hierarchical, and emphasized educational background, and both of them had high multilingual ability but could not fully demonstrate their abilities. In both cases, there was a relatively high emphasis on family, confirming the important function played by the mother tongue.

Journal

• Studies of Language and Cultural Education

  Studies of Language and Cultural Education 19 (0), 95-111, 2021-12-24

  Association for Language and Cultural Education: ALCE

Keywords

• English Medium Program
• language welfare
• linguistic ecology
• multilingual use
• multilingual speakers

Details

• CRID: 1390009640069775488
• NII Article ID: 130008159556
• DOI: 10.14960/gbkkg.19.95
• ISSN: 21889600
• ISSN: 21887802
• Text Lang: ja
• Data Source:
  • JaLC
  • CiNii Articles
  • KAKEN
• Abstract License Flag: Disallowed