Studies in Japanese Bilingualism

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.

• John C. Maher: Preface1 Mary Goebel Noguchi: Introduction: The Crumbling of a Myth2 Yamamoto Masayo: Japanese Attitudes Towards Bilingualism: A Survey and Its Implications3 Fred E. Anderson and Masami Iwasaki-Goodman: Language and Culture Revitalisation in a Hokkaido Ainu Community4 Osumi Midori: Language and Identity in Okinawa Today 5 Ann B. Cary: Affiliation, Not Assimilation: Resident Koreans and Ethnic Education6 Tomozawa Akie: Japan’s Hidden Bilinguals: The Languages of ‘War Orphans’ and their Families after Repatriation from China7 Hirataka Fumiya, Koishi Atsuko and Kato Yosuke: On the Language Environment of Brazilian Immigrants in Fujisawa City 8 Sharon Seibert Vaipae: Language Minority Students in Japanese Public Schools9 Mary Goebel Noguchi: Bilinguality and Bicultural Children in Japan: A Pilot Survey of Factors Linked to Active English-Japanese Bilingualism10 R. Michael Bostwick: Bilingual Education of Children in Japan: Year Four of a Partial Immersion Programme11 Yuriko Kite: English/Japanese Codeswitching Among Students in an International High School 12 Sandra Fotos: Codeswitching by Japan's Unrecognised Bilinguals: Japanese University Students' Use of Their Native Language as a Learning Strategy13 Lynne Hansen: Language Attrition in Contexts of Japanese BilingualismContributorsIndex