2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Mother Tongue and Inherited Language to Nurture Language that Connect Parents and Children: Supporting Academic Learning and Publishing Bilingual Creative Picture Books

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Project/Area Number	19K13245
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Review Section	Basic Section 02090:Japanese language education-related
Research Institution	Kyoto Women's University (2020-2021) Ritsumeikan University (2019)
Principal Investigator	Namekawa Eriko 京都女子大学, 国際交流センター, 助教 (70813963)
Project Period (FY)	2019-04-01 – 2022-03-31
Keywords	外国につながる子ども / 外国人の親 / 母語 / 継承語 / 多言語絵本 / デジタル絵本 / 教科学習支援 / アイデンティティ・テキスト
Outline of Final Research Achievements	This study explored the significance and potential of mother tongue learning and inherited language learning. Regarding the former, we analyzed a case in which parents from abroad, who had difficulty contributing to their children's academic learning due to language and cultural differences, participated in supporting academic learning through their native language, suggesting the need to create an environment that takes diversity into consideration. For the latter, we created four original bilingual picture books in native language and Japanese, featuring parents and family members from abroad, and published them on our website. After that, articles about them appeared in one newspaper. The program also had the effect of reconstructing the relationship between "Japanese = those who teach and those from other countries = those who are taught".
Free Research Field	バイリンガル教育　日本語教育　母語・継承語教育
Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements	外国につながる子どもを対象とする母語を介した教科学習に関する学術的意義として、先行研究では焦点化されていなかった教材文のテーマについて新たな可能性を見出したこと、先行研究では人的リソースや協働の観点から環境づくりを議論したが、視覚素材や資料という環境づくりの新しい視点をもたらしたことが挙げられる。本研究の母語・継承語活動（母語と日本語の二言語による創作絵本の制作）は、当事者が絵本の主人公となる点が独創的であり注目を集めた。社会的意義として、ウエブサイト開設や新聞記事の掲載により国内外の広範囲に啓発を促すとともに、複数の団体やグループとのコラボ企画を実現し母語・継承語活動の発展に貢献した。