Heritage-Language Education for Japanese Children Living Abroad and the Impacts on Their Ethnic Identity: What Are Their Learning Objectives for the Japanese Language?

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Author(s): Akiko Onda (The Awty International School, USA)
Copyright: 2021
Pages: 23
Source title: Evolving Multicultural Education for Global Classrooms
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Richard Keith Gordon (Seisa University, Japan & California State University, USA), Kawser Ahmed (University of Winnipeg, Canada & Conflict and Resilience Research Institute, Canada)and Miwako Hosoda (Seisa University, Japan)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7649-6.ch008

Keywords: Curriculum Development and Instructional Design / Gender & Diversity / Information Science Reference / Medicine & Healthcare

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With consistently increasing globalization, the number of Japanese children living and receiving education abroad continues to grow. Previous studies have compared the Japanese-language abilities of children studying Japanese abroad to those of children living in Japan. However, the author contends that the backgrounds of children studying Japanese abroad vary greatly, as do their learning goals. The former do not necessarily want to learn the same language skills as children who study in Japan. Japanese-language education for children living overseas requires that students understand what they want to achieve in terms of their language ability. This chapter focuses on children who have lived and been educated in multiple countries other than Japan; it discusses their Japanese-language learning goals and the environment needed to support those goals. It also examines their sense of ethnic identity as Japanese and how this relates to their upbringing and language-learning experiences.

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