This edited book comprises chapters integrated around a central theme on college-educated Japanese, Korean, and Chinese women’s orientation to English study.

English is now a global phenomenon no longer defined by fixed territorial, cultural and social functions. The Routledge Companion to English Studies provides an

This book argues for a view of study abroad as emergent of, and negotiated through, tensions between localised and globalised imaginaries of language, identity

This book seeks a better understanding of the sociocultural and ideological factors that influence English study in Japan and study-abroad contexts such as univ

This edited collection addresses the link between second language pragmatics (including interlanguage and intercultural) research and English language education