Ideology, Agency, and Intercultural Communicative Competence

Jeremie Bouchard holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Birmingham, UK and is currently a member of the Faculty of Humanities at Hokkai Gakuen University, Sapporo, Japan. His research centres on the sociological aspects of EFL education in Japanese secondary schools, notably how observed educational processes emerge from the complex mediation between cultural, structural and agentive forces.

• 1 Exploring the Japanese EFL classroom.- 2 ICC, Nihonjinron and Native-Speakerism.- 3 Theoretical groundwork.- 4 Methodological groundwork.- 5 Nihonjinron, native-speakerism and recent MEXT policies on EFL education.- 6 Nihonjinron, native-speakerism and EFL classroom discourse and practice.- 7 Summary of research and implications for ICC education in JHS.- 8 Conclusion.