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Bilingual Family Case Studies

Volume 2

by Laurel D. Kamada

Oct. 1997, 59 pages

600 yen + postage

Abstract

This monograph is a compilation of reports of twenty cases from ten more bilingual family case studies conducted by the author and originally printed in the "Bilingual Japan Newsletter" from 11/94 through 12/96 and includes a summary of the main themes and lessons learned including schooling breakdowns of the twenty cases.

Among others, cases here deal with the following issues: bilingual acquisition of a learning disabled child, nurture and nature questions concerning bilingual acquisition of four adopted Caucasian and Asian children in a missionary family, a brief history of bilingual schooling in Japan as seen through five generations of one foreign family, and bilingual acquisition of a Japanese girl after high school.

Themes included the following in regards to bilingual acquisition:

• nurture/nature questions
  

• children of minority language (ML) mothers versus ML fathers
  

• passive/receptive bilinguality
  

• parental linguistic laxness and future uncertainty
  

• children of bilingual parents versus monolingual ML parents
  

• missionary families and biliteracy
  

• returnees
  

• unique/odd language relationships within families
  

• frequent (or long duration) trips overseas
  

• ML training at home by parents.