Publications

Publication details [#42892]

Galan, Christian. 2005. Learning to read and write in Japanese (kokugo and nihongo): a barrier to multilingualism? International Journal of the Sociology of Language 175,176 : 249–269.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

globalization | language barrier | multilingualism | reading, L2-acquisition of | writing, L2-acquisition of

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

As Japan is welcoming an increasingly large number of economic immigrants, the question is raised whether the Japanese method of teaching (Japanese) reading and writing is suitable for non-Japanese children.