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.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language maintenance | language use | literacy | minority language | speech community

Language as a subject

English, New Zealand | Japanese

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

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.