This paper presents a case study of language maintenance efforts made by bilingual Japanese children in Melbourne
whose parents are of Japanese background. The children were selected from two sub-groups in the Japanese community:
the children of business sojourners (temporary residents), the largest sub-group in the community, and the children of
permanent residents, the second largest sub-group. Focusing on the micro-level language planning for maintenance, this
study examines the speakers’ degree and direction of maintenance in terms of Japanese language proficiency, and
it analyses the correlation between the maintenance achieved, the factors, and the strategies adopted. Two instruments have
been developed for the assessment of speakers’ naturally occurring spoken discourse data. It is argued that the
children’s differing residential status, being either a sojourner or permanent resident, is a key factor affecting the
maintenance process and its outcomes, and that maintenance at the micro-level, specifically individual and family levels,
is the result of the combined efforts of the parents and the children.
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Seals, Corinne A. & Joy Kreeft Peyton
2017. Heritage language education: valuing the languages, literacies, and cultural competencies of immigrant youth. Current Issues in Language Planning 18:1 ► pp. 87 ff.
Mori, Yoshiko & Toshiko M. Calder
2013. Bilingual Vocabulary Knowledge and Arrival Age Among Japanese Heritage Language Students at Hoshuukoo. Foreign Language Annals 46:2 ► pp. 290 ff.
Mori, Yoshiko & Junko Mori
2011. Review of recent research (2000–2010) on learning and instruction with specific reference to L2 Japanese. Language Teaching 44:4 ► pp. 447 ff.
Chik, Alice
2008. Native English-speaking Students in Hong Kong EFL Classrooms: A Case Study. Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching 2:1 ► pp. 18 ff.
Chik, Alice
2008. Native English-speaking Students in Hong Kong EFL Classrooms: A Case Study. Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching 2:1 ► pp. 18 ff.
Baldauf, Richard B.
2006. Rearticulating the Case for Micro Language Planning in a Language Ecology Context. Current Issues in Language Planning 7:2-3 ► pp. 147 ff.
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