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Studies in Japanese Bilingualism

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This book helps dissolve the myth of Japanese homogeneity by explaining the history of this construct and offering 12 empirical studies on different facets of language contact in Japan, including A...
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  • 28 November 2000
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Studies in Japanese Bilingualism helps dissolve the myth of Japanese homogeneity by explaining the history of this construct and offering twelve empirical studies on different facets of language contact in Japan, including Ainu revitalisation, Korean language maintenance, creative use of Ryukyuan languages in Okinawa, English immersion, and language use by Nikkei immigrants, Chinese "War Orphans" and bicultural children, as well as codeswitching and language attrition in Japanese contexts.
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Price: $45.95
Pages: 400
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Imprint: Multilingual Matters
Series: Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
Publication Date: 28 November 2000
Trim Size: 9.20 X 6.15 in
ISBN: 9781853594892
Format: Paperback
BISACs: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Sociolinguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Bilingualism and multilingualism
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Mary Goebel Noguchi is a Professor of English in the College of Law at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan. In addition to research and translation in the field of Japanese studies, she has taken an interest in the development of bilingualism by bicultural children in Japan and Japanese returnees. In 1995 she helped found the Japan Journal of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism and has since served as its editor.

Sandra S. Fotos is a Professor of English at Senshu University, Tokyo, Japan. Her research interests include bilingualism and the effects of formal instruction on second language acquisition. She has published in journals such as Applied Linguistics, Language Learning, ELT-Journal and TESOL Quarterly. She is editor of the JALT Journal, published by the Japan Association for Language Teaching.

John C. Maher: Preface
1 Mary Goebel Noguchi: Introduction: The Crumbling of a Myth
2 Yamamoto Masayo: Japanese Attitudes Towards Bilingualism: A Survey and Its Implications
3 Fred E. Anderson and Masami Iwasaki-Goodman: Language and Culture Revitalisation in a Hokkaido Ainu Community
4 Osumi Midori: Language and Identity in Okinawa Today
5 Ann B. Cary: Affiliation, Not Assimilation: Resident Koreans and Ethnic Education
6 Tomozawa Akie: Japan’s Hidden Bilinguals: The Languages of ‘War Orphans’ and their Families after Repatriation from China
7 Hirataka Fumiya, Koishi Atsuko and Kato Yosuke: On the Language Environment of Brazilian Immigrants in Fujisawa City
8 Sharon Seibert Vaipae: Language Minority Students in Japanese Public Schools
9 Mary Goebel Noguchi: Bilinguality and Bicultural Children in Japan: A Pilot Survey of Factors Linked to Active English-Japanese Bilingualism
10 R. Michael Bostwick: Bilingual Education of Children in Japan: Year Four of a Partial Immersion Programme
11 Yuriko Kite: English/Japanese Codeswitching Among Students in an International High School
12 Sandra Fotos: Codeswitching by Japan's Unrecognised Bilinguals: Japanese University Students' Use of Their Native Language as a Learning Strategy
13 Lynne Hansen: Language Attrition in Contexts of Japanese Bilingualism
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