Japanese Native Speakers’ Perceptions of Non-native Speakers: Communication Between Japanese Medical Professionals and Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) Nurse Trainees

Kusunoki, Rika

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“…After working in Japan for 3 years, they become eligible to take the national certification exam, but the exam, only offered in Japanese, has been considered a major hurdle for these foreign workers because it tends to evaluate skills and knowledge highly embedded in local language and culture (Lan, 2016, 2018; Shinohara, 2016). A growing number of studies (Hashimoto, 2018; Kusunoki, 2018; Nunoo, 2016; Otomo, 2016) have critically examined the language ideologies and policies behind the scheme of the EPA program through the analysis of government documents, media discourse, and results of questionnaires and interviews with various stakeholders. However, few studies have investigated actual workplace activities in which these foreign care workers have taken part.…”

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Text, talk, and body in shift handover interaction: Language and multimodal repertoires for geriatric care work

Mori

Shima

2020

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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Japan's rapidly aging population and chronic labor shortages have led the country to consider increased reliance on foreign workers. The government promotes the cultivation of nihongo jinzai ‘Japanese language human resources’ (MOFA, 2013), that is, highly skilled foreign workers proficient in the de facto national language, but in reality, such ideal individuals are scarce. Workplaces thus must explore ways to accommodate workers with limited Japanese competence. By introducing a sequential and multimodal analysis of shift handover interaction between Japanese and foreign care workers at a geriatric facility, the current article critically evaluates the monolingual, logocentric ideology reflected in the ongoing national debate as well as in the institutional convention of information sharing. The examination of the ways in which these workers deploy multimodal semiotic resources for the fulfillment of their duty points to the need for reevaluation of conventional practices in favor of increased affordance of spatial repertoire.

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Text, talk, and body in shift handover interaction: Language and multimodal repertoires for geriatric care work

Mori

Shima

2020

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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The Intertwining of Native-Speakerism and Racism in the Construction of Linguistic Identity

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2022

Discourses of Identity

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Juxtaposition of English and Japanese native-speakerism: through the concept of the international university being a heterotopia

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Japanese Native Speakers’ Perceptions of Non-native Speakers: Communication Between Japanese Medical Professionals and Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) Nurse Trainees

Cited by 4 publications

References 7 publications

Text, talk, and body in shift handover interaction: Language and multimodal repertoires for geriatric care work

Text, talk, and body in shift handover interaction: Language and multimodal repertoires for geriatric care work

The Intertwining of Native-Speakerism and Racism in the Construction of Linguistic Identity

Juxtaposition of English and Japanese native-speakerism: through the concept of the international university being a heterotopia

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