Parents’ Perceptions and Expectations on Their Children’s Heritage and Target Languages in Four Korean-Student Families

• 영문명: Parents’ Perceptions and Expectations on Their Children’s Heritage and Target Languages in Four Korean-Student Families
• 발행기관: 한국영어학학회
• 저자명: Hohsung Choe Yunjoo Park
• 간행물 정보: 『영어학연구』영어학연구 제21호, 97~122쪽, 전체 26쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2006.06.01

영문 초록

  There have been many studies on heritage language loss and maintenance in the Indo-European language families. This issue has become a recent phenomenon among Asian-language-speaking immigrants. In this paper, we examine four Korean student families in the U.S., which we expect to have implications on the recently growing dimension of L1 loss and maintenance in Asian families. The aims of this paper are to report parents" strategies for L1 maintenance and to expand the understanding of heritage language loss as a process in four Korean student families. Multiple sources of data from parents and children are analyzed into three emerging, recurring themes: (1) the attitudes toward English and Korean literacy vs. communication; (2) the L1 community; and (3) relations among older and younger siblings.

목차

1. Introduction
2. The Nature of Second Language Acquisition and First Language Maintenance/Loss
3. Methodology
4. Results
5. Conclusion
References
University of Foreign Studies Press

키워드

second language acquisition first language loss and maintenance literacy education