Can the “language and cultural education” cross over the “Japanese as a second language education”?

The possibility of “future” from the articles of Ushikubo and Miyo

Abstract

This article is tried to expand discussion of language and cultural education by commenting to Ushikubo’s and Miyo’s article on this paper. At first, I analysed the direction of discussion on the journals of Studies of Language and Cultural Education (SLCE). And I indentified that the characteristics of SLCE are “reframing of the meaning of practices”. Then I showed the signification and limitation caused by membership of ALCE. Second, I mentioned the expanding the membership of ALCE beyond the Japanese as a second language education, and the posibblity to become language and culatural education as citizenship education.