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This chapter describes the formidable challenges involved in an effort to anglicize a Japanese university campus, even a comparatively small campus like the one in question. Given a predominantly non-English-speaking Japanese hinterland, the amount of regimentation and contrivedness involved in creating a supposedly anglicized campus on Japanese soil renders the undertaking practically unrealistic. Part of the problem is seen to lie in the matter of administrator naivety or a lack of understanding of not only the symbolic and semiotic but also the dynamic nature of language, which would have made campus anglicization look like a deceptively simple administrative matter decidable top-downward. This scenario sets the stage for EMI initiatives in Japanese higher education institutions to be examined critically in the rest of the book.
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Toh, G. (2016). Campus Anglicization, Critical Ironies. In: English as Medium of Instruction in Japanese Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39705-4_2
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