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@article{ART002206421},
author={Keiko Kawaguchi},
title={Proficiency of Japanese as a heritage language for early elementary school children},
journal={The Japanese Language Association of Korea},
issn={1229-7275},
year={2017},
number={51},
pages={81-98}

TY - JOUR
AU - Keiko Kawaguchi
TI - Proficiency of Japanese as a heritage language for early elementary school children
JO - The Japanese Language Association of Korea
PY - 2017
VL - null
IS - 51
PB - The Japanese Language Association Of Korea
SP - 81
EP - 98
SN - 1229-7275
AB - This study aims to investigate proficiency of Japanese as a heritage language for children of Korean-Japanese families. The research examined oral and reading proficiency of 25 early elementary school children in Japanese, using "Dialogic Language Assessment (DLA) for Japanese as a second language" which was developed by the Ministry of Education in Japan. In the productive vocabulary assessment, it was found that only 5 out of 25 children have the age-appropriate level of vocabulary. As for oral proficiency, they performed well in the "basic" and "communicative" tasks, however, scores of "cognitive tasks" were much lower than other tasks, which implies that language use mainly at homes is not enough to foster cognitive language proficiency. As for reading proficiency, 6 out of 25 children (32%) were not able to be assessed due to a lack of literacy skills. Therefore, the reading proficiency of 19 children was assessed using scales of reading preference, reading fluency, and comprehension. As a result, 24% have the age-appropriate reading proficiency, 44% have insufficient reading comprehension, and 32% have a lack of literacy skills.
KW - Korean-Japanese families;Japanese as a heritage language;Early elementary school children;Oral proficiency;Reading proficiency
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Keiko Kawaguchi. (2017). Proficiency of Japanese as a heritage language for early elementary school children. The Japanese Language Association of Korea, 51, 81-98.

Keiko Kawaguchi. 2017, "Proficiency of Japanese as a heritage language for early elementary school children", The Japanese Language Association of Korea, no.51, pp.81-98.

Keiko Kawaguchi "Proficiency of Japanese as a heritage language for early elementary school children" The Japanese Language Association of Korea 51 pp.81-98 (2017) : 81.

Keiko Kawaguchi. Proficiency of Japanese as a heritage language for early elementary school children. 2017; 51 : 81-98.

Keiko Kawaguchi. "Proficiency of Japanese as a heritage language for early elementary school children" The Japanese Language Association of Korea no.51(2017) : 81-98.

Keiko Kawaguchi. Proficiency of Japanese as a heritage language for early elementary school children. The Japanese Language Association of Korea, 51, 81-98.

Keiko Kawaguchi. Proficiency of Japanese as a heritage language for early elementary school children. The Japanese Language Association of Korea. 2017; 51 81-98.

Keiko Kawaguchi. Proficiency of Japanese as a heritage language for early elementary school children. 2017; 51 : 81-98.

Keiko Kawaguchi. "Proficiency of Japanese as a heritage language for early elementary school children" The Japanese Language Association of Korea no.51(2017) : 81-98.