The third panel will focus on
Cultural and Language Perspectives.
The panel chair for this
section is to be confirmed. Please refer back to this page for updates.
Please note there will be three
presenters in this panel. The first and thirds presenter will be confirmed and printed in
the programme for the day.
1) TBC
2) Nahoko Mulvey (Department of Education)
Abstract
Title:
Aiming to Unveil Japanese as a Heritage Language Education in England
My
study investigates Japanese language education for children of Japanese people
living permanently in England. These children have gained some
competence in Japanese at home, though they are educated in mainstream school
in English. In the literature this competence is generally referred
to as Japanese as a Heritage Language (JHL). Since
the 1990s, Heritage Language (HL) has been gaining significant attention in US
research, policy and practice. Especially since the September 11
attacks, there has been an increasing interest in expanding the nation’s
linguistic resources by preserving and training HL competence. Specific
research on JHL education started at the end of the 1990s in North
America. Though some researchers have revealed characteristics of
JHL learners, the content of and approach to JHL education has not been
established yet. In England, more than 700,000 children speak at least 300
languages, and across the UK at least 6l different languages are taught in
about 5,000 supplementary schools (CILT, 2005; Minty et al., 2008). They are
voluntary schools provided by ethnic minority communities, demonstrating a
multilingual England, often hidden from the mainstream (Creese et al.,
2008). Though some researchers are investigating HL education in other
languages, JHL education has been scarcely investigated in England. In
addition to 7 supplementary schools funded by the Japanese
government, I have found 10 grass-root Japanese weekend schools in England in
my preliminary research. As the initial stage of my JHL education research I
would like to shed light on the current circumstances of these 10 schools.
Biography
Nahoko
has been involved in language education for many years at schools and
universities in Japan, Australia and in the UK. Her research
interest in Japanese as a heritage language arose while working for a Japanese
ethnic school in Brisbane, attended on Saturdays by the children of Japanese
living permanently in Australia. She investigates Japanese as a heritage
language education in England under the supervision of Prof. Suzy Harris and
Prof. Tope Omoniyi.
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