Sociocultural-Linguistics & Pragmatics Rethinking the Notion of Language Learning: Engagements With English more

Sun, Nov 14, 18:00-18:25 Asia/Tokyo

In this presentation, I rethink the notion of language learning. Based on my larger multifaceted research project, I focus on the phenomenon that individuals in Japan are often involved in English in a more divergent way than what language learning means in the conventional sense. To further explore this trend, I propose the idea of engagements, which will contribute to providing more comprehensive understandings of English in Japan than what is available in the literature.