JALT2025 - Tokyo

The Use of Heritage Language and Culture in Global Society

Nov 2, 2025, 12:35 PM

30m

National Olympics Memorial Youth Center / 国立オリンピック記念青少年総合センター

Research-oriented Presentation (30-minutes) Sociocultural Linguistics and Pragmatics Room 308

Speaker

Yuri Kimura

Description

This presentation will show the use of heritage language and mother culture in a global society by university students with foreign roots. The students were interviewed about their language acquisition. They use their heritage language, Japanese, and English to interpret for their parents, international students and foreign customers at their part-time jobs, and to serve as intermediators between people of different cultures. This study offers the importance of students’ heritage language being beneficial in society.

Summary

This presentation will show the use of heritage language and mother culture in a global society by university students with foreign roots. The students were interviewed about their language acquisition. They use their heritage language, Japanese, and English to interpret for their parents, international students and foreign customers at their part-time jobs, and to serve as intermediators between people of different cultures. This study offers the importance of students’ heritage language being beneficial in society.