Children's Language Use in a Multicultural Kindergarten:
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- Huang Wanchien
- 同志社大学
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- Yamana Yuko
- 秋田大学
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- Sakakibara Tomomi
- 東京学芸大学
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- Wada Mika
- 東京家政学院大学
Bibliographic Information
- Other Title
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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
Description
<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>
Journal
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- RESEARCH on EARLY CHILDHOOD CARE and EDUCATION in JAPAN
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RESEARCH on EARLY CHILDHOOD CARE and EDUCATION in JAPAN 56 (3), 174-185, 2018
JAPAN SOCIETY of RESEARCH on EARLY CHILDHOOD CARE and EDUCATION
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1390001288126847360
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- NII Article ID
- 130007608327
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- ISSN
- 24241679
- 13409808
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- Text Lang
- ja
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- Data Source
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- JaLC
- CiNii Articles
- KAKEN
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- Abstract License Flag
- Disallowed