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Studies in Japanese bilingualism / edited by Mary Goebel Noguchi and Sandra Fotos.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Bilingual education and bilingualism ; 22.
- Bilingual education and bilingualism ; 22
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bilingualism--Japan.
- Bilingualism.
- Education, Bilingual--Social aspects--Japan.
- Education, Bilingual.
- Linguistic minorities--Education--Social aspects--Japan--Case studies.
- Linguistic minorities.
- Physical Description:
- x, 386 p.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Clevedon [England] ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters Ltd., c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- 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 Ainu revitalisation, Korean language maintenance and English immersion, as well as codeswitching and language attrition in Japanese contexts.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1: Inroduction: The Crumbling of a Myth
- Chapter 2: Japanese Attitudes Towards Bilingualism: A Survey and Its Implications
- Chapter 3: Language and Culture Revitalisation in a Hokkaido Ainu Community
- Chapter 4: Language and Identity in Okinawa Today
- Chapter 5: Affiliation, Not Assimilation: Resident Koreans and Ethnic Education
- Chapter 6: Japan's idden Bilinguals: The Language of 'War Orphans' and Their Families After Repatriation From China
- Chapter 7: On the Language Environment of Brazilian Immigrants in Fujisawa City
- Chapter 8: Language Minority Students in Japanese Public Schools
- Chapter 9: Bilinguality and Bicultural Children in Japan: A Pilot Survey of Factors Linkied to Active English-Japanese Bilingualism
- Chapter 10: Bilingual education of Children in Japan: Year Four of a Partial Immersion Programme
- Chapter 11: English/Japanese Codeswitching Among Students in an International High School
- Chapter 12: Codeswitching by Japan's Unrecognised Bilinguals: Japanese University Students' Use of Their Native Language as a Learning Strategy
- Chapter 13: Language Attrition in Contexts of Japanese Bilingualism
- Contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786610827800
- 9781853597086
- 9781280827808
- 1280827807
- 9781853597084
- 1853597082
- OCLC:
- 923618928
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