Cover -- NEGOTIATING BILINGUAL AND BICULTURAL IDENTITIES: Japanese Returnees Betwixt Two Worlds -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Overview -- Acknowledgment -- 1 From My Story to the Stories of Other Bilinguals -- Alan Hall -- Exploring Identity -- Framing Identity -- Narrative Inquiry -- Communities of Practice -- In Search of Identity Narratives: The Process -- A Brief Background on Kikokushijo -- Approaching Four Students -- Collaboration -- Analysis -- 2 Sawako's Story -- 3 Kenji's Story -- 4 Kikuko's Story -- 5 Rui's Story -- 6 The Development of Bilingual and Bicultural Identities -- Sojourn -- Canadians look down on us": The English Barrier -- I survived thanks to Saturdays": Hoshuko and Japanese Identity -- I need to ensure that I have an option of leading a secure life": Parental Influence -- Reentry -- She finds joy in not looking like a kikokushijo": Readjustment Strategies -- There's something lacking in me" and "You feel recognized": Loss and Gain -- Reconciliation -- I eat hamburgers but I like Japanese food too": Coming to Terms With Hybrid Identities -- 7 Theoretical Implications -- Sociocultural Context for Change -- Immigrant and Sojourner Identities -- Coherence, Multiplicity, and Narrative Links: The Question of Identity -- 8 Conclusions -- Educational Implications -- Are ESL Students' Needs for Social Participation Adequately Addressed? -- Under What Conditions Is Language Minority Students' L1 Maintenance Successful? -- How Can We Ensure the Educational Reintegration of Returnee Students? -- Do We Have Enough Faith in Who Our Students Are Capable of Becoming? -- To What Extent Are We Listening to Our Students' Voices? -- Postscript -- References -- Appendix: Cited Quotes in Original Japanese -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

This book examines the changing linguistic and cultural identities of bilingual students through the narratives of four Japanese returnees (kikokushijo) as they spent their adolescent years in North America and then returned to Japan to attend university. As adolescents, these students were polarized toward one language and culture over the other, but through a period of difficult readjustment in Japan they became increasingly more sophisticated in negotiating their identities and more appreciative of their hybrid selves. Kanno analyzes how educational institutions both in their host and home countries, societal recognition or devaluation of bilingualism, and the students' own maturation contributed to shaping and transforming their identities over time. Using narrative inquiry and communities of practice as a theoretical framework, she argues that it is possible for bilingual individuals to learn to strike a balance between two languages and cultures. Negotiating Bilingual and Bicultural Identities: Japanese Returnees Betwixt Two Worlds: *is a longitudinal study of bilingual and bicultural identities--unlike most studies of bilingual learners, this book follows the same bilingual youths from adolescence to young adulthood; *documents student perspectives--redressing the neglect of student voice in much educational research, and offering educators an understanding of what the experience of learning English and becoming bilingual and bicultural looks like from the students' point of view; and *contributes to the study of language, culture, and identity by demonstrating that for bilingual individuals, identity is not a simple choice of one language and culture but an ongoing balancing act of multiple languages and cultures. This book will interest researchers, educators, and graduate students who are concerned with the education and personal growth

of bilingual learners, and will be useful as text for courses in ESL/bilingual education, TESOL, applied linguistics, and multicultural education.

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