National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics

Summary

People of foreign origin who work, study, raise children, and live in Japan for a long period of time (foreign residents) must read and write Japanese in various situations in their daily lives even though they have few opportunities to learn Japanese. How do they cope with these situations? Their “literacy as a social practice” has seldom not been the focus of much attention as a subject of research on Japanese language education and that efforts to assist them have lagged behind those in other countries. Our project will focus on literacy as a social practice in the daily lives of foreign residents, and it seeks to understand their views, strategies to become literate in Japanese, their awareness of issues, and their social participation. Our project also attempts to identify various issues inherent in conventional “literacy in school,” to update views on literacy in Japanese, and to propose new forms of literacy assistance. This symposium will start by describing trends of studies in English-speaking countries. Next, a panel discussion will further discuss the practice of literacy based on case studies of returnees from China and Sakhalin, China.

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