「金の卵を潰さない」

― 高度バイリテラシーを支えるために親たちが家庭でしていること ―

抄録

The rapid globalisation has led many school aged children to face the difficult task of acquiring literacy skills in two or more languages. In the literature, it has been repeatedly pointed out that choices parents make in their child upbringing affect the linguistic developments of such children in various ways. However, these studies focused on the overall trend and the detailed strategies and beliefs that parents use in their child upbringing are yet to be explored. This study aims at describing such strategies and beliefs that parents have in order to support the development of biliteracy in a qualitative manner, by means of interviews to four mothers of Japanese-English bilingual students acquiring biliteracy at an advanced level. Through SCAT analysis of the interview data, six concepts were observed across the families, which are hoped to provide some guidance in the child upbringing of bi/multi-lingual children.