在韓日本人一世と二世の二言語習得と二言語接触状況 - 二言語併用能力との関わりから - 盧

Abstract

This study tries to examine, from a bilingual point of view, the characteristics of the　bilingual acquisition and bilingual contact situations of Japanese residents in Korea. The results are as follows: (1) The first-generation Japanese residents in Korea learned Japanese naturally from their early childhood. Many of them came over to Korea after receiving education in Japan for many years. So they usually possess a high level of Japanese language ability. Because they started living in Korea for reasons such as marriage, studying, and business, they have strong motivations to learn the Korean language. However, their Korean language learning did not last long, and as their stay in Korea became longer, they became accustomed to everyday Korean language and finally reached the current Korean language ability. (2) As for the second-generation Japanese residents in Korea, their Japanese proficiency is not homogeneous. They consist of a few groups; the group of people who learned Japanese as the first language, the group of people who studied Japanese within a short period of time at a public educational institution or through a private lesson, and the Korean monolingual group. Meanwhile, as the second-generation Japanese residents in Korea were born and raised in Korea, they learned the Korean language naturally while listening to people speak in Korean from their childhood. (3) There are more opportunities for the first generation to be exposed to Japan and the Japanese language than the second generation. (4) There is a difference in the bilingual abilities of the first generation and the second generation, and the difference is closely related to the differences in contact situations of the two languages. The results can serve as indispensable data for understanding the community of the Japanese residents in Korea and bilingual education.