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Language and Education in Japan

Unequal Access to Bilingualism
By:Y. Kanno
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9780230506947
eText ISBN:9780230591585
Edition:0
Copyright:2008
Format:Page Fidelity

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The first critical ethnography of bilingual education in Japan. Based on fieldwork at five different schools, this examines the role of schools in the unequal distribution of bilingualism as cultural capital. It argues that schooling gives children unequal access to bilingualism thus socializing them into different futures.