| ID | 100298 |
| Title Proper | Who is to say your Japanese is incorrect |
| Other Title Information | reflection on correct Japanese usages by learners of Japanese |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Thomson, Chihiro Kinoshita |
| Publication | 2010. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This paper discusses the Japanese language used by JSL learners in Japan, while examining JSL classrooms as public space. It draws upon JSL literature, Japanese textbooks and their discourses to find the kinds of Japanese that are taught and used in JSL classrooms and how they are presented and consumed, and it observes how diversity in learners' language is dealt with inside and outside of JSL classrooms in Japan, keeping in view the danger of 'colonisation' of classrooms. It will then study new developments where JSL speakers are participating in development of their own 'third space', which values hybridity more than diversity, and in turn the continuous re-construction of the public space. |
| `In' analytical Note | Japanese Studies Vol. 30, No. 3; Dec 2010: p427-441 |
| Journal Source | Japanese Studies Vol. 30, No. 3; Dec 2010: p427-441 |
| Key Words | Japan ; Japanese ; Language ; Public Space |