| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 206 pages) |
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Palgrave studies in minority languages and communities |
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Palgrave studies in minority languages and communities.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Framing the Study -- Nichiei Immersion School -- Zhonghua Chinese Ethnic School -- Hal International School -- Sugino Elementary School -- Midori Elementary School -- Imagined Communities and School Policies and Practices -- Student Bilingualism and Identities -- Conclusions: Unequal Access to Bilingualism -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
In this first critical ethnography of bilingual education in Japan, Yasuko Kanno examines the relationship between school education and inequality of access to bilingualism. She provides detailed and vivid accounts of the lived experiences of teachers, students and parents at five schools in Japan: an immersion school, a Chinese ethnic school, an international school, and two state/ 'public' schools. Drawing on the concept of imagined communities, Yasuko Kanno argues that schools provide unequal access to bilingualism by envisioning different imagined communities for students of different socioeconomic classes and socializing them into these stratified imagined communities. While additive bilingualism in two socially prestigious languages is aggressively promoted for upper-middle-class students, immigrant and refugee children are subtly coerced into replacing their first language with society's dominant language |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-197)-and indexes |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Language and education -- Japan
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Bilingualism -- Japan
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English language -- Study and teaching -- Japanese speakers.
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Second language acquisition.
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EDUCATION -- Bilingual Education.
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Bilingualism
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English language -- Study and teaching -- Japanese speakers
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Language and education
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Second language acquisition
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Zweisprachigkeit
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Schule
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Japan
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Japan
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780230591585 |
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0230591582 |
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1349353248 |
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9781349353248 |
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