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Author:   Mary Goebel Noguchi ,  Sandra Fotos ,  John Maher
Publisher:   Channel View Publications Ltd
Imprint:   Multilingual Matters
Volume:   No. 22
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.626kg
ISBN:  

9781853594892

ISBN 10:   185359489
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   28 November 2000
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction - the crumbling of a myth, Mary Goebel Noguchi; Japanese attitudes towards bilingualism, Yamamoto Masayo; language and culture revitalization in a Hokkaido Ainu community, Fred E. Anderson and Masami Iwasaki-Goodman; language and identity in Okinawa today, Osumi Midori; affiliation, not assimilation - resident Koreans and ethnic education, Ann B. Cary; Japan's hidden bilinguals - the language of ""war orphans"" and their families after repartriation from China, Tomozawa Akie; on the language environment of Brazilian immigrants in Fujisawa city, Hirataka Fumiya, Koishi Atsuko and Kato Yosuke; language minority students in Japanese public schools, Sharon Vaipae; bilinguality and bicultural children in Japan, Mary Goebel Noguchi; bilingual education for children in Japan; English/Japanese codeswitching among students in an international high school, Yuriko Kite; codeswitching by Japan's unrecognised bilinguals, Sandra Fotos; language attrition in contexts of Japanese bilingualism, Lynne Hansen."

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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.

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