Publications
Publication details [#56438]
Oriyama, Kaya. 2012. What role can community contact play in heritage language literacy development? Japanese–English bilingual children in Sydney. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 33 (2) : 167–186. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Journal WWW
Annotation
This study shows that whereas language use is of greater influence than background, community contact adds the most to the heritage language literacy development among Japanese heritage school-age children in Sydney, particularly as it significantly favors literacy-augmenting private language use.