BOOKS by Yasuko Kanno

Negotiating Bilingual and Bicultural Identities: Japanese Returnees Betwixt Two Worlds more books like this

by Yasuko Kanno

An examination of the changing linguistic and cultural identities of bilingual students through the narratives of four Japanese returnees (kikokushijo) as they spent their adolescent years in North America and then returned to Japan to attend university. As adolescents, these students were polarized toward one language and culture over the other, ...

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Language and Education in Japan: Unequal Access to Bilingualism more books like this

by Yasuko Kanno

"Language and Education in Japan" offers the first critical ethnography of bilingual education in Japan. Based on two-year fieldwork at five different schools, the book examines the role of schools in the unequal distribution of bilingualism as cultural capital. It argues that bilingual children of different socioeconomic classes are socialized ...

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