Translingual English teachers and students’ desires for the concept of ‘native speaker’ in Japan

• Autores: Ryo Mizukura
• Localización: Dismantling the Native Speaker Construct in English Language Teaching / Enric Llurda (ed. lit.), 2025, ISBN 9781003427537, págs. 140-158
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This study revolves around the concept of desire in English language education. The first studies looking at desire in relation to language learning in Japan were limited to studying the phenomenon of sexual romantic desire from female English language learners toward Caucasian English native-speaking teachers. However, this particular type of desire could not contemplate the manifold nature of desire arising in language education contexts in Japan. Therefore, this study focuses on two different types of desires of English teachers and learners, based on Lacan and Deleuze’s respective formulations, and their connections with native-speakerism in Japan.Interviews with two multilingual university English teachers and four graduates from the same university showed that the desire of students to be fluent at the level of native speakers of English gradually diminished after they gained more experience in using English to communicate with Asian students. Overall, while some participants showed Lacanian desires to be like native speakers, others aspired to explore new forms of international communication and methods of language instruction in accordance with Deleuzian desires.