Studies in Japanese Bilingualism

Linguists and educators, most from or working in Japan, present a dozen empirical studies on such topics as a survey of Japanese attitudes toward bilingualism, language and identity in Okinawa today, the language environment of Brazilian immigrants in Fujisawa City, year four of a partial immersion program for the bilingual education of children, and university students' use of their native language as a learning strategy. The introduction challenges the myth of Japanese homogeneity. Distributed in the US by University of Toronto Press. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Mary Goebel Noguchi is a Professor of English in the College of Law at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan. In addition to research and translation in the field of Japanese studies, she has taken an interest in the development of bilingualism by bicultural children in Japan and Japanese returnees. In 1995 she helped found the Japan Journal of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism and has since served as its editor. Sandra S. Fotos is a Professor of English at Senshu University, Tokyo, Japan. Her research interests include bilingualism and the effects of formal instruction on second language acquisition. She has published in journals such as Applied Linguistics, Language Learning, ELT-Journal and TESOL Quarterly. She is editor of the JALT Journal, published by the Japan Association for Language Teaching.