Heritage Learners of Japanese: Learning Needs and Curriculum Provision for Japanese-Australian children

Project Member(s): Oguro, S.

Funding or Partner Organisation: The Japan Foundation
The Japan Foundation

Start year: 2010

Summary: The fellowship allowed research into critical perspectives on language and internationalisation of Japan, focussing specifically on the identities and learning needs of bilingual Japanese-English speaking children.

Publications:

Moloney, R & Oguro, S 2015, 'Chapter 8. Identities and languages: Two stories of multilingual development' in Chan, W, Bhatt, SK, Nagami, M & Walker, I (eds), Culture and Foreign Language Education, DE GRUYTER, Germany, pp. 179-194.
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FOR Codes: Other Cultural Understanding, Other Language, Literature and Culture, Other language, communication and culture, Other culture and society

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.