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Tag Archives: English and globalization
English at work in Japan
This article by Kimie Takahashi discusses the decisions by companies such as Rakuten and Uniqlo to make English their company language. It looks briefly at the arguments in favour of this move, such as preparing Japanese companies for globalization, but … Continue reading
Make English a true multicultural language
This article by Nobuyuki Honma, a professor at Aoyama Gakuin University, argues that the teaching of English in Japan as a multicultural language needs to recognize not just the globalization of English, but also its localization, the process whereby English … Continue reading
Japan far behind in global language of business
This article compares attitudes to and policies for learning and using English in Japan with Korea, and China, looking at issues such as study abroad in English-speaking countries, English classes at elementary school level, English in business, and testing of … Continue reading
Firms tie English to survival
The recent moves by up-and-coming companies such as Rakuten Inc. and Fast Retailing Co., who run Uniqlo, to adopt English as their official in-house language by 2012 reveal their resolve to compete globally to survive. This article look at the … Continue reading
The Hegemony of English and Strategies for Linguistic Pluralism: Proposing the Ecology of Language Paradigm
One of the most important tasks that we scholars ought to achieve is to discover a question out of the taken-for-granted knowledge in the existing reality. The question I want to raise in this paper is concerned with the use … Continue reading
Philippines hung up on English
This article looks at call centres in the Philippines and a plan for the Philippines call centre or “offshoring and outsourcing” (O&O) industry to have 10% of the world market. But the Philippines, which boasts of being the third-largest English-speaking country … Continue reading
Englishes Around the World 