Hidden Bilingualism: Ideological Influences on the Language Practices of Multilingual Migrant Mothers in Japan

Nakamura, Janice

doi:10.1080/19313152.2016.1206800

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“…The children's use of English in their plays also suggests that the children who receive exposure to two languages may not necessarily produce both languages. Based on her research on Italian‐speaking and English‐speaking parents in Japan, Nakamura () argues that this may be due to the parents’ discourse strategies. Her research showed that the parents’ predominant use of the move‐on strategy (Lanza, , ) in responding to their children's Japanese utterances did not encourage their children's production of their weaker language.…”

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Siblings' play and language shift to English in a Malay‐English bilingual family in Singapore

Mirvahedi

Cavallaro

2019

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This research applies language socialization theory within a family language policy framework to investigate how language shift is realized in daily activities within a Malay‐English bilingual family in Singapore. Applying Goffman's frame analysis to two excerpts of siblings’ play from ninety hours of recordings of family interactions, we illustrate how children as young as four and seven enact adult roles such as teacher and student within the frame of play. In creatively enacting these roles, identities and social relations, the children draw upon their knowledge of play‐external structures – with which they have experience from other (non‐play) situations. The children consequently use English – what is typical of educational settings in Singapore – to portray an image of a teacher and student within the frame of play.

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Siblings' play and language shift to English in a Malay‐English bilingual family in Singapore

Mirvahedi

Cavallaro

2019

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“…In addition, by taking an active role in their children's socialisation, mothers become crucial to language maintenance or shift within the family (Kayam and Hirsch 2012;Nakamura 2016;Tuominen 1999). Okita (2002) asserts that mothers play an important role in helping their children adjust to the school environment and the majority language as well as in promoting the home language.…”

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Home language policy of second-generation Turkish families in the Netherlands

Bezcioğlu-Göktolga

Yağmur

2017

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

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This study investigated the family language policy of second-generation Turkish immigrant families in the Netherlands by exploring their language ideologies, practices, and management strategies. Using an ethnographic approach, data were collected through a set of observations and interviews with 20 families. Transcriptions of interviews and memos of observations were coded to derive the major strategies employed by parents regarding home language use. The findings show that, although Turkish maintenance is a very important part of the linguistic ideologies of the families studied, there is great diversity and complexity in their language practices and management strategies. All of the families focus their language planning activities around the educational achievement of their children. Therefore, the recommendations of educational institutions are very important in their language practices. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…However, non-Japanese parents tend to speak Japanese to their children (Ishii, 2010;Jabar, 2013;Nakamura, 2015;Yamamoto, 2005). Language ideology plays a critical role in minority language transmission, but non-Japanese parents tend to valorize and prioritize the acquisition of Japanese, and evaluate their minority language negatively (Nakamura, 2016;Yamamoto, 2002). For some parents, their language ideology may be driven by their perception of society's negative evaluation of their minority language rather than actual experiences.…”

Section: Bilingualism In Exogamous Families In Japanmentioning

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“…For some parents, their language ideology may be driven by their perception of society's negative evaluation of their minority language rather than actual experiences. In Nakamura (2016), a Thai mother chose to speak Japanese to her children in front of their Japanese kindergarten teacher and grandparents due to her perceived fear that they would be angry if she used Thai. The tendency of non-Japanese parents to attach little value to the acquisition of the minority language contributes to a pro-Japanese FLP and leads to receptive bilingualism or Japanese monolingualism in their children.…”

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“…English-Japanese bilingualism is highly valued by Japanese people (Yamamoto, 2001a), and English-speaking parents raising bilingual children are aware of society's favorable perception of the language (Yamamoto, 2005). The high status of English in Japan even motivates non-native English speakers to speak English instead of their native language to their children (Billings, 1990;Nakamura, 2016;Yamamoto, 2002Yamamoto, , 2005). Nevertheless, not all children exposed to English end up speaking it.…”

Section: Bilingualism In Exogamous Families In Japanmentioning

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Parents’ Impact Belief in Raising Bilingual and Biliterate Children in Japan

Nakamura

2019

Psychology of Language and Communication

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Impact belief is the conviction that parents have that they can affect their children’s language development (De Houwer, 1999). This paper investigates how parents’ impact belief is shaped and how it transpires into language management which supports the bilingual and biliterate development of children in exogamous families. Interviews with eight English-speaking parents raising English-Japanese bilingual children in Tokyo, Japan were analyzed using the constructive grounded approach (Charmaz, 2014). The results revealed that the parents’ impact belief was influenced by their individual experiences, the support of their Japanese spouses, and peer influence. Specifically, it was positively affected by other parents with older bilingual children. The parents’ impact belief was also strengthened by their involvement in ‘communities of practice,’ i.e., English playgroup and weekend school. Their strong impact belief led to language management efforts which included their insistence on their children speaking English and the regular practice of home literacy activities.

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Hidden Bilingualism: Ideological Influences on the Language Practices of Multilingual Migrant Mothers in Japan

Cited by 62 publications

References 28 publications

Siblings' play and language shift to English in a Malay‐English bilingual family in Singapore

Siblings' play and language shift to English in a Malay‐English bilingual family in Singapore

Home language policy of second-generation Turkish families in the Netherlands

Parents’ Impact Belief in Raising Bilingual and Biliterate Children in Japan

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