Social psychological investigation on the education of heritage language and the formation of culutural identity

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25590162
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Social psychology
• Research Institution: Kanazawa Institute of Technology
• Principal Investigator: Kimura Tatsuya 金沢工業大学, 基礎教育部, 准教授 (20410293)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 文化的アイデンティティ / 異文化適応 / 継承語 / フィールド調査 / インタビュー

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In Vietnamese crowding area of Yao, Osaka, we conducted a field survey on Vietnamese people who participate in a heritage language class. The subjects of survey were Vietnamese adolescents and their parents. From interview with them and a questionnaire to them, the process of Vietnamese adolescents’ identity formation has three stages, “unexamined cultural identity”, “cultural identity search”, and “Cultural identity achievement”.

Free Research Field

社会心理学