Introduction

Discovering voices, discovering selves: English language, intercultural communication, and Japanese queer sexualities
A 1928 manuscript in The English Journal declared, “English has become so much a part of the Japanese people in the last 50 years that it has rightly been called the second language of the empire” (Crocker, p. 288). Fast forward to 2005 as [...]

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Sources

References
Cameron, D. & Kulick, D. (2003). Language and Sexuality. UK: Cambridge University Press.
Crocker, L. (1928). The Impact of English on Japanese. The English Journal, 17, 288-294.
Curran, G. (2006). Responding to students’ normative questions about gays: Putting queer theory into practice in an Australian ESL class. Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 5, 85-96.
De Vincenti, G., [...]

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Hypotheses

The following are hypotheses of the proposed research:

There exist Japanese individuals who identify themselves as queer (defined as any non-heteronormative sexuality).
There exists self-identified, queer Japanese who have a functional knowledge of English language (the ability to communicate orally or in writing such that a conversation [...]

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Objectives

The objectives of the current, proposed research then are:

To examine how self-identified, queer Japanese do or do not consider themselves as having constructed a queer identity.
To examine how English language and intercultural communication might play a role in queer individuals’ understanding of their sexuality or in the construction of a [...]

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The Closet in the Classroom: A personal narrative

The Closet in the Classroom: A personal narrative
Indiana University of Pennsylvania instructor, Marlen Harrison, reflects on queer sexualities in the Japanese TESOL classroom. Through personal narrative, Harrison examines both the ramifications of coming out to students and the presence of queer sexualities in ESL/EFL instruction.
On my first day as a university teacher in Western [...]

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