Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies

Stirring the ‘Language Policy Soup’

Japanese in Language Education Policies in France and Finland

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Abstract

This paper compares and contrasts the ‘Japanese language policy soup’ as it is currently cooked in a bottom-up and top-down manner in schools in two EU countries, France and Finland, with different culinary and educational traditions and practices. The Authors describe and analyse not solely the end result, Japanese language education at schools, but also the roles of the various stakeholders who partake in Japanese language policy making in the French and Finnish language ecologies.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Submitted: Feb. 21, 2020 | Accepted: June 3, 2020 | Published July 3, 2020 | Language: en

Keywords France • Upper secondary school • Japanese Language Education • Language Education Policy • Finland

Copyright © 2020 Christian Galan, Riikka Länsisalmi. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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