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Abbreviations |
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Preface |
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Acknowledgments |
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Introduction |
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Chapter 1 Self, subjectivity and a story of multiple voices |
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1.1 Introduction: Producer, process and product |
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1.2 Self, selves and identity |
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1.3 Knowing self through the other |
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1.4 Knowing the other through self |
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1.5 Influence of the self on the name of the data |
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1.6 Textual representation: A story of multi-voices |
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Chapter 2 Research overview and methodology |
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2.2 Research as a learning process |
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2.3 Questions, aims and rationale |
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2.4 Overview of the study |
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Chapter 3 Cultural compatibility in teaching and learning |
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3.2 Culture in the classroom |
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3.3 Cultural compatibility in teaching and learning |
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3.4 The culture of learning: Japanese and Australian classrooms |
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3.6 Students' perceptions about the host country's classroom culture |
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3.7 Students' observation of the host country's classroom culture |
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Chapter 4 Japanese native-speaker teachers in Australian classrooms |
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4.2 Australia's awareness of countries with geographical, economic and political significance |
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4.3 Promotion of Asian languages |
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4.4 Japanese language education in Queensland schools |
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4.5 Rapid growth of Japanese language education and consequent teacher shortage |
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4.6 Teacher qualifications |
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4.7 Teaching approaches promoted in LOTE education |
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4.9 The JNS teacher trainees' classroom experience |
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4.10 Findings and analysis |
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4.11 The rust-year JNS teachers' classroom experience |
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4.13 Discussions about support for INS teachers' professional development |
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Chapter 5 JNS teachers' classroom language use and development of lesson management strategies |
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5.2 The study - aims of the two stages |
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5.3 The nature of teachers' classroom language use |
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5.4 Communicative competence in classrooms |
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5.6 Development of a framework for analysis: expanding the definition of directives |
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5.7 Summary and integrated framework |
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5.9 Arrangements for classroom observation |
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5.10 Stage 1 findings and analysis |
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5.11 Stage 2 findings and analysis |
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Chapter 6 Conclusion |
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6.2 Research as a self-development process - reflections on producer, process and product |
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6.3 Making the invisible visible and defining the assumed undefinable |
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6.4 Research implications |
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6.7 Application of the research to other educational contexts: broadening the horizon of cross-culturalness |
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6.8 Conclusion: moving forward |
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Bibliography |
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Notes |
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