| Budget Amount *help |
¥5,590,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,290,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Children in a multilingual environment and in receipt of childcare at a daycare center were visited and observed over 4 years. From the utterance records collected there and the S-S Test for language-retarded children, developed by the National Rehabilitation Center, it was revealed that children growing up in a multilingual environment exhibit slower vocabulary and syntactic development in Japanese and that this continues past the age of four and a half years. According to results from the native language vocabulary survey, circumstances of acquisition vary from child to child, with some showing signs of double limitation. However, the high-quality educational atmosphere, resulting from close contact with care givers and active peer exchange with picture books, is expected to compensate for the potential weakness in multilingual children.multilingual children.
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