| 研究実績の概要 |
In the last year of this research project I interviewed over 30 children and their parents themes pertaining to bilingual education, the child's ethnic identity and parental attitudes with international families across the UK and Japan. In terms of findings the data can be broken down into three parts.
1. Data showed that although families were all positively inclined to raising their children to be bilingual the amount of L2 input and parental attitudes were strong determines in whether or not the child would be a successful bilingual.
2. According to the Cooley's looking glass theory a person's self grows out of a their social interactions with others. In other words how society perceives them. This research showed that bicultural bilingual children from the UK and Japan differ in terms of their identity and how these children are perceived and view themselves in a multicultural society like the UK and a homogeneous society like in Japan.
3. In an examination of the linguistic relativity theory how bilingual bicultural children view objects (mass noun v count noun) was examined in contrast to monolingual British and Japanese children. Basic results suggest that L2 input and exposure have a large influence can shape the child's view especially in the case of this triad object test.
All of the above research areas of the study have been presented at conferences in Croatia, Hungary and Tokyo. The results are being written for papers to be submitted to relevant journals.
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