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This book reveals the underlying connections among global issues, national policy-making, and local practices related to partnership, or team-teaching, in English language lessons in the Japanese Junior High School context. It investigates the complex relationship among team-teachers, students, and wider stakeholders, such as the local Board of Education, Ministry of Education and other non-educational influences at the political, social and economic levels. The book offers essential knowledge for scholars, students and policy makers who are interested in, or have experienced, team-teaching in the Japanese school context. Additionally, team-teaching in English classrooms is widely implemented not only in Japan, but also other Asian countries. Similar types of joint instruction are also seen in collaborative teaching in British schools and in European schools in which Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) has been carried out. In this sense, this study into the particular Japanese context provides both valuable insights into the multi-layered influences on Japanese secondary school English education, and also a model of research methodology into team-teaching contexts in wider contexts.

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Naoki Fujimoto-Adamson is an Associate Professor at Niigata University of International and Information Studies, in Japan. She teaches academic writing, test-taking skills, sociolinguistics and discourse analysis, and received her MA in English Language Teaching (ELT) from the University of Essex, UK, and her MEd from the University of Leicester, UK. Her research interests are in the fields of team-teaching in Japanese secondary schools, the history of ELT in Japan, academic publishing, and English Medium Instruction (EMI).

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