Welcome to “Mother tongue 1, 2, 3!”

We created this website to provide information on the importance of mother tongue, or heritage, languages for children who are connected to foreign countries, and to provide specific information on assisting children to use these languages. Our goal is to create an information network, with the hope that it will be of use to teachers, those involved in providing study support in the community, parents, and to researchers who are interested in this field.

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The importance of mother tongue languages and Japanese language acquisition

 Supporting mother tongue language learning at home

Bilingual people’s voices

Mother tongue language classrooms

Miscellaneous  information
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Kansai Research Group for Mother Tongue Education

Yoko Matsuda (Professor, School of Economics, University of Hyogo) (Representative)
Takashi Notsu (Professor, School of Economics, University of Hyogo)
Mayumi Kubota (Professor, Faculty of Comprehensive Informatics, Kansai University)
Miki Inui (Professor, School of Human Science and Environment, University of Hyogo)
Tomoko Ochiai (Researcher, Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, Kobe University，Elementary school aide, Kobe city)
Natsuki Kitayama (Part-time lecturer, School of Literature, Konan Women’s University)
Tatsumi Sugino (Researcher, Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, Kobe University)

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