Children's Language Use in a Multicultural Kindergarten:

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  • 多文化保育における幼児のことば
  • ―5歳児のコードスイッチングに着目して―
  • Focusing on 5-Year-Olds' Code Switching

Abstract

<p>This study aims to find how the children who grow up in a multicultural environment communicate with other people surrounding themselves during the new-language-learning process, and to clarify the situations when children switch between languages, especially under what circumstances and how often the children interact with others in different languages in multicultural kindergartens.</p><p>We observed eight children who were playing in a Chinese language kindergarten in Japan. The results showed that the Chinese-Japanese bilingual children usually take a more proactive stance on language switching rather than passive responding. Furthermore, they managed to switch to their dominant language when they didn't know an appropriate word in the other language in the kindergarten. The results that have been indicated by adult speakers in related research are confirmed in our study.</p>

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  • CRID
    1390001288126847360
  • NII Article ID
    130007608327
  • DOI
    10.20617/reccej.56.3_174
  • ISSN
    24241679
    13409808
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
    • CiNii Articles
    • KAKEN
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