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Nakagawa, Akira – 1996
A sociolinguistic analysis of English loan words in use in the 1990s in the discourse of young Japanese people is presented. The study drew data from a 1993 survey of undergraduate students at two Osaka (Japan) higher education institutions, one for men and one for women, which asked what loanwords students used and heard often. The report first…
Descriptors: College Students, English, Foreign Countries, Higher Education

Morikawa, Hiromi; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1988
Comparison of maternal speech to three-month-olds between American (N=20) and Japanese (N=20) mother-infant dyads revealed that infant gaze affected the intended functions of maternal speech differently for the two groups. Cultural differences were also seen in the nature of function-form and function-referent relationships. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences

Yamamoto, Masayo – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1995
Discusses the patterns of language usage in international families in which the native language of one parent is Japanese and the other English. Using data from several surveys of such families, this article analyzes patterns of language use between spouses, parents and children, and among siblings. Also discussed are the problems that…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingualism, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences
Minami, Masahiko – 1994
Two studies examined conversations between mothers and children from three different groups to determine culturally preferred narrative elicitation patterns: (1) Japanese-speaking mother-child pairs living in Japan; (2) Japanese-speaking mother-child pairs living in the United States; and (3) English-speaking Canadian mother-child pairs.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences
Ihata, Anne C. – 1993
This study investigated patterns of acquisition of English and Japanese by a toddler, aged 16-23 months, living in Japan. The child's mother and father are British and Japanese, respectively. The focus of the study was on early grammatical morpheme and transformational rule acquisition as demonstrated in the child's utterances. The study is…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Case Studies, Child Language, Cultural Pluralism
Nakajima, Setsuko – 1993
This paper discusses common miscommunication problems that occur between Japanese and Americans, even when both are speaking Japanese, with a focus on high contextuality and women's position in business organizations. It also examines how these cultural differences can be addressed through the use of videotaped conversations. One of the preeminent…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, English
Gutow, Howard L., Ed.; And Others – Cross Currents, 1979
The articles in this cross-cultural journal deal with practical issues in second language instruction, English education, the needs of the language learners, principles governing the creation of word pairs, and the process of building in-service language programs. The following articles are included: (1) "The Role of Redundancy, Function, and…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Book Reviews, Cross Cultural Training, English