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Offer Organization: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, System Name: Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Fund Type: -, Overall Grant Amount: - (direct: 2800000, indirect: -)
Based on the field works in Korea, China and Taiwan, several research papers were published in the final report. Concerning Korea, a report about 'English Village' which is closely related to the early start of English education and two articles by interview on the actual situation of education of Japanese language are in the final report. Concerning China, an investigator(Lee) introduced in detail the movement of foreign language education in the Korean autonomous region in the north-east China. Concerning Taiwan, a research team(Shozawa as head) made clear how the indigenous language is taken into official education system by the analysis of collected data. All of these are discussion from latest information through field work. They show the complex relation between foreign language and social circumstances in each country or region.
In the process of research, some foreign researchers showed interest on our project, and we could get valuable information and discussion from them. Including them, quite a few collaborative researchers contributed to the final report with their papers, which dealt with, for example, the elementary English teacher training in Korea, content analysis of Japanese language textbook in Korea, movement of English education reform in Japan, case study of a bilingual school in Japan and practices of foreign language education in an elementary school in Japan.
Besides final report, two papers were published in academic journals. The actual movement of the early start of English should be considered with the properness of each country or region rather than by the reflection of globalism. The problem of the early start of English and second foreign language education in Korea and Japan is how to realize the publicness of language education. The policies and practices concerning language education can be seen as struggles for it.