Twitter Posts on English Language Learning in Japan : Attitudes Towards Neitibu （‘Native Speakers’）

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To critically explore the ideological nature of English and English learning/ teaching in Japan, this study, as part of a multifaceted project, explores how attitudes towards English （or learning/teaching English） are displayed on the social media platform Twitter. First, I examined the results of the thematic analysis of Twitter discourse with an analytical viewpoint of native-speakerism, illustrating the underlying assumptions and inconsistencies in attitudes towards English learning. Then, I applied van Dijk’ s （2004） analytical framework and explored the recreation of the power relationship between ‘native speakers’ and ‘non-native speakers’ in the social media discourse. This study argues that hegemonic ideology is recreated by ‘ourselves’ by unintentionally applying inverted ‘ideological squares’ . This study focuses on Japanese society as a case study of learning English as a foreign language, revealing a self-defeating attitude towards ‘native-speakers’ , which potentially reinforces their own subjugation, in turn having implications for future studies in global contexts.

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