Heritage Language Development
Focus on East Asian Immigrants
Published on 13. December 2006
Book
Hardback
282 pages
978-90-272-4143-6 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of studies investigates the individual, micro-psychological, and macro-societal factors that promote or discourage the development of child and young adult heritage language learners' spoken and written skills in East Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean). The research presented in this book is based on empirical data from various learning and social settings in the United States and Canada. The contributors are themselves mostly from East Asian immigrant backgrounds and have worked closely with students from such backgrounds. This book also speaks to the needs for future research within East Asian communities that will (a) promote East Asian heritage language development in applied linguistics, (b) encourage parental, community, and national support for East Asian heritage language development, and (c) improve the teaching of oral and written skills for heritage learners of East Asian languages in various educational settings.
Reviews / Votes
This book contains a very rich source of information for anyone interested in intonational variation across different Englishes. It provides a large amount of prosodically transcribed data, an excellent software package with which to search it, and an appendix with over one hundred pages of preliminary quantitative information. -- Anne Wichmann, University of Cental Lancashire, in ICAME Journal 34: 236-241More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
645 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-4143-6 (9789027241436)
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Content
1. Acknowledgments; 2. Author information; 3. Introduction (by Kondo-Brown, Kimi); 4. Section 1: Heritage language development among East Asian immigrant families; 5. The role of parents in heritage language maintenance and development: Case studies of Chinese immigrant children's home practices (by Li, Guofang); 6. Balancing L1 maintenance and L2 learning: Experiential narratives of Japanese immigrant families in Canada (by Sakamoto, Mitsuyo); 7. Grandparents, grandchildren, and heritage language use in Korean (by Park, Eunjin); 8. Section 2: The influence of educational institutions on heritage language development; 9. Heritage language development: Understanding the roles of ethnic identity, schooling and community (by Chinen, Kiyomi); 10. High-stakes testing and heritage language maintenance (by Shin, Sarah J.); 11. Japanese English bilingual children in three different language environments (by Hayashi, Asako); 12. Section 3: Heritage language use and proficiency: Associated and predictive factors; 13. Heritage language maintenance by Korean-American college students (by Kim, Eun Joo); 14. First language use and language behavior of Chinese students in Toronto, Canada (by Man, Evelyn Yee-fun); 15. East Asian heritage language proficiency development (by Kondo-Brown, Kimi); 16. References; 17. Index