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Homeland Education in a New Home

Japanese Government Policy and Its Local Implementation in a Weekend Japanese Language School in the United States

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As of July 2014, there were eighty weekend Japanese language schools in the United States. They are called supplementary instruction schools (hoshū jugyō kō), and their main purpose is to serve Japanese children overseas by providing them with instruction in the Japanese language arts.

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  1. Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

    Kiri Lee

  2. Ramapo College, US

    Neriko Musha Doerr

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  1. Temple University Japan Campus, Tokyo, Japan

    Sachiko Horiguchi

  2. Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

    Yuki Imoto

  3. Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan

    Gregory S. Poole

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Lee, K., Doerr, N.M. (2015). Homeland Education in a New Home. In: Horiguchi, S., Imoto, Y., Poole, G.S. (eds) Foreign Language Education in Japan. Critical New Literacies: The Praxis of English Language Teaching and Learning (Pelt). SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-325-4_2

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