Kenta Koshiba
Biographic Data
| ID | 6602439 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenta Koshiba |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenta |
| FAMILY NAME | Koshiba |
| SIGNATURE | KOSHIBA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kyoto Sangyo University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Between Inheritance and Commodity
This paper explores how the discourse of Japanese ethnolinguistic identity differently affected three youths in a heritage language class in Australia. Based on a case study involving these informants, I show how the discourse was contested, reproduced, and appropriated. More specifically, I show how language was disaligned from ethnicity and construed as a commodity. This, however, did not make ethnicity irrelevant. It was reconnected with langu…
Mediating between discourse worlds
This paper explores the role that translation may play in developing the symbolic competence of advanced-level bilingual learners. To this end, it examines how a group of bilingual learners engaged with a translation task that was assigned to them as part of their study in an advanced-level Japanese language class at an Australian university. Analysis of the students’ translations and their translation processes showed that they were engaging in …
Language Identities of Japanese Home-background Speakers and their Language Learning Needs
Language education for home-background speakers or heritage learners has recently attracted significant attention in many countries. This case study reports on some of the findings on these speakers' backgrounds, profiles and language identities, utilising the data collected from a survey and focus group interview with 10 tertiary-level Japanese home-background speakers. We found that although all are classified as ‘home-background speakers’, the…
Mediating between discourse worlds
This paper explores the role that translation may play in developing the symbolic competence of advanced-level bilingual learners. To this end, it examines how a group of bilingual learners engaged with a translation task that was assigned to them as part of their study in an advanced-level Japanese language class at an Australian university. Analysis of the students’ translations and their translation processes showed that they were engaging in …
Language Identities of Japanese Home-background Speakers and their Language Learning Needs
Language education for home-background speakers or heritage learners has recently attracted significant attention in many countries. This case study reports on some of the findings on these speakers' backgrounds, profiles and language identities, utilising the data collected from a survey and focus group interview with 10 tertiary-level Japanese home-background speakers. We found that although all are classified as ‘home-background speakers’, the…
Between Inheritance and Commodity
This paper explores how the discourse of Japanese ethnolinguistic identity differently affected three youths in a heritage language class in Australia. Based on a case study involving these informants, I show how the discourse was contested, reproduced, and appropriated. More specifically, I show how language was disaligned from ethnicity and construed as a commodity. This, however, did not make ethnicity irrelevant. It was reconnected with langu…
Language Identities of Japanese Home-background Speakers and their Language Learning Needs
Language education for home-background speakers or heritage learners has recently attracted significant attention in many countries. This case study reports on some of the findings on these speakers' backgrounds, profiles and language identities, utilising the data collected from a survey and focus group interview with 10 tertiary-level Japanese home-background speakers. We found that although all are classified as ‘home-background speakers’, the…
Mediating between discourse worlds
This paper explores the role that translation may play in developing the symbolic competence of advanced-level bilingual learners. To this end, it examines how a group of bilingual learners engaged with a translation task that was assigned to them as part of their study in an advanced-level Japanese language class at an Australian university. Analysis of the students’ translations and their translation processes showed that they were engaging in …
Between Inheritance and Commodity
This paper explores how the discourse of Japanese ethnolinguistic identity differently affected three youths in a heritage language class in Australia. Based on a case study involving these informants, I show how the discourse was contested, reproduced, and appropriated. More specifically, I show how language was disaligned from ethnicity and construed as a commodity. This, however, did not make ethnicity irrelevant. It was reconnected with langu…
EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Heritage language (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work)