Kimi Kondo-Brown

List of John Benjamins publications in which Kimi Kondo-Brown is involved.

Title

Heritage Language Development: Focus on East Asian Immigrants

Edited by Kimi Kondo-Brown

This collection of studies investigates the individual, micro-psychological, and macro-societal factors that promote or discourage the development of child and young adult heritage language learners’ spoken and written skills in East Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean). The research… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 32] 2006. x, 282 pp.

Articles

Kondo-Brown, Kimi 2006 East Asian heritage language proficiency development Heritage Language Development: Focus on East Asian Immigrants, Kondo-Brown, Kimi (ed.), pp. 243–258 | Article

Heritage language (HL) researchers with a focus on East Asian languages today have recently made major advances in identifying individual and contextual factors associated with HL proficiency development in these languages. This chapter first reviews recent empirical studies that examine factors… read more

Kondo-Brown, Kimi 2006 Introduction Heritage Language Development: Focus on East Asian Immigrants, Kondo-Brown, Kimi (ed.), pp. 1–12 | Miscellaneous

“I never spoke Japanese at home ‘cause everything was in English at school, and my friends were all local children who spoke only English, you know. I thought, ‘This is Hawaii, everybody speaks English.’ At some point, I didn’t speak Japanese at all. I thought it was normal.... When I was growing… read more