Language Policy for Linguistic Minority Students in Japanese Public Schools and Prospects for Bilingualism: The Nikkei Brazilian Case
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As a result of the recent wave of immigration to Japan, most public schools in Japan are coping with the new challenge of educating the children of immigrant families. I explore the national and local-level responses of the Japanese education system to the problem of language instruction for immigrant children since the mid-1990s. Throughout I focus on the children of one of the largest of the recent immigrant groups, the people of Japanese descent from Brazil. I describe the array of social, structural, and attitudinal factors that have contributed to many of these children entering into a "linguistic limbo" in which they are in danger of not being able to maintain proficiency in Portuguese nor become proficient in Japanese.
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