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Mana's language portrait.

Mana's language portrait.

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Figure 1. Mana's writing on her early SA experience.
Figure 2. Mana's River of Life.
Figure 3. Takuya's River of Life.
Figure 4. Mana's language portrait.
+2 Figure 5. Takuya's language portrait.
Language learning and socioemotional well-being in early educational migration: Japanese children's transition into English-medium education in Malaysia
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  • Jun 2024
Transnational educational migration is an emerging educational practice among East Asian families. This study investigates the language learning and socioemotional well-being of children who study abroad. Two Japanese siblings (ages 11 and 14) provided their insights on studying at an English-medium school in Malaysia. Data were collected over 1.5...
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... mastered English conversational skills, they were acquiring academic knowledge in English. In her language portrait (Figure 4), Mana mixed different colours to illustrate the languages flowing through her entire body, showing the multilingual exposure she received in Malaysia. She depicted Japanese as her heart but English as her mind because she had to put effort into learning it. ...