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Heritage Language Development: Understanding the Roles of Ethnic Identity and Saturday School Participation
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Chinen, Kiyomi; Tucker, G. Richard – Heritage Language Journal, 2005
This paper reports on a study of 31 Japanese-American adolescents enrolled in a Saturday Japanese heritage school (JHL) in Los Angeles. The study examined the relationship of the participants' sense of ethnic identity, attitudes toward the JHL school and self-assessed proficiency in Japanese. The major finding of the study, consistent with…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Self Concept, Japanese, Second Language Learning