Research on how global networking can nurture additive bilingual youth in Japanese and heritage language

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K00738
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 02090:Japanese language education-related
• Research Institution: Kobe University
• Principal Investigator: Ochiai Tomoko 神戸大学, 国際人間科学部, 准教授 (50624938)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 久保田 真弓 関西大学, 総合情報学部, 教授 (20268329) ; 吉富 志津代 武庫川女子大学, 文学部, 教授 (20608559)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: 継承語教育 / 母語教育 / 学習環境デザイン / 還流移民 / 加算的バイリンガル / 民族言語的バイタリティ / 継承語の資産性・資源性

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We conducted a life story survey of graduates of Vietnamese heritage language classes in the Vietnamese community in Kobe, and clarified the mechanism of the decline in motivation to learn the heritage language during adolescence and subsequent recovery among Vietnamese youth from the 1.5 to 2 generations of immigrants.
In addition, as a result of an observational study of the support for Japanese immigrants in Okinawa, we conducted a series of interviews, mainly online, to investigate the nature of inherited language education and community in the Okinawan settlement near Santa Cruz, Bolivia, which has been transmitting inherited Japanese and producing Japanese-Spanish bilinguals. Through a series of interviews, the existence of a community that fosters bilingualism and a network between Bolivian Okinawa and Tsurumi, Yokohama, has been revealed, and research is ongoing.

Free Research Field

教育社会学　異文化間教育　継承語教育

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

継承語学習動機の低下と高揚のメカニズムを明らかにし、継承語学習者にとって重要なルーツの文化と移住先の間のグローバルネットワークの存在を明らかにした。ボリビアー沖縄‐横浜の鶴見のネットワークと加算的バイリンガル育成のメカニズムについては現在も調査が進行中である。
またこうした知見を当事者・保護者・学校教員・行政関係者に向けての研修講師、招へい講演講師を意識的に勤め、継承語育成のための共通理解の普及に努めた。2023年度以降も研究成果の発表を継続する予定である。