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Teaching Chinese, Japanese, and Korean heritage language students curriculum needs, materials, and assessment

This book contributes to building the research knowledge that language teaching professionals need in developing curriculum for the large population of East Asian heritage students (including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) in countries like the United States, Canada, and Australia, where speakers of...

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Other Authors: Kondo-Brown, Kimi (Editor), Brown, James Dean (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: ©2008
Series:ESL & applied linguistics professional series
Subjects:
Chinese Americans > Education.
Japanese Americans > Education.
Korean Americans > Education.
Schools, Chinese > United States.
Schools, Japanese > United States.
Schools, Korean > United States.
Native language and education > United States.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Kimi Kondo-Brown and James Dean Brown
  • Issues and future agendas for teaching Chinese, Japanese, and Korean heritage students / Kimi Kondo-Brown
  • Japanese and English language ability of students at supplementary Japanese schools in the United States / Hiroko C. Kataoka, Yasuko Koshiyama, and Setsuko Shibata
  • Measuring the Japanese proficiency of heritage language children / Tomomi Hasegawa
  • Heritage and nonheritage learners of Korean: sentence processing differences and their pedagogical implications / Hi-Sun Helen Kim
  • A separate track for advanced heritage language students?: Japanese intersentential referencing / Kimi Kondo-Brown and Chie Fukuda
  • Heritage language learners' attitudes, motivations and instructional needs: the case of postsecondary Korean language learners / Jin Sook Lee and Hae-Young Kim
  • Developing "a compromise curriculum" for Korean heritage and nonheritage learners / William H. Yu
  • The affective needs of limited proficiency heritage language learners: perspectives from a Chinese foreign language classroom / Heather Dawn Weger-Guntharp
  • Curriculum design for young learners of Japanese as a heritage language / Masako O. Douglas
  • Robust learning for Chinese heritage learners: motivation, linguistics and technology / Sue-mei Wu
  • Online chat for heritage learners of Chinese / De Zhang and Niki Davis.

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