Nobuyuki Hino (Ph.D.)
Professor, Graduate School of Language and Culture, Osaka University
For the symposium “Changing nature of Japanese language teaching and learning in a
multilingual world” (December 2018, Hong Kong)
Title (Keynote Speech):
Liberating language users from native speaker norms
言語使用者を母語話者の規範から解放する言語教育
Abstract:
It has traditionally been taken for granted that native speaker norms should
be observed
even by those who use the language for international communication. However,
confining the language users within the linguistic and cultural framework of native
speakers is actually unproductive. The imposition of native speaker norms does not
necessarily contribute to the enhancement of intelligibility in international
communication, while it also poses undue restrictions on the potential of self-expression.
In this talk, the speaker will discuss principles and practices for teaching a language
from such a post-native-speakerist position, partly based on his experiences in Japan
since the 1980s in teaching EIL (English as an International Language), or English as a
de-Anglo-Americanized means of international communication. Although scholars of
WE (World Englishes) and ELF (English as a Lingua Franca) tend to assume that the
global spread of the language is a prerequisite for deliverance from native speaker
norms, this perspective should in principle be applicable to any language when used for
international communication.
Profile:
Nobuyuki Hino is Professor, Graduate School of Language and Culture, Osaka
University, Japan. He holds a Ph.D. in Language and Culture from Osaka University.
Being a former director of the International Association for World Englishes and a
former president of the Japanese Association for Asian Englishes, he currently serves on
the editorial/advisory board of the journal World Englishes (Wiley) as well as of the
book series Intercultural Communication and Language Education (Springer) and
Routledge Advances in Teaching English as an International Language (Routledge). His
latest single-authored book is EIL education for the Expanding Circle: A Japanese
model (Routledge, 2018).