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This paper explores the language identities of three Japanese-English bilinguals who were enrolled in a Japanese heritage language class at an Australian university. Based on narratives collected though a series of semi-structured interviews with these focal students, it aims to show the heterogeneity of their family and educational backgrounds, and the diversity in the ways they constructed their relationships with the Japanese language—their “heritage” language. The paper argues that these youths were not inheritors of fixed ethnic or linguistic identities. Instead, their identities were shaped by the dynamic relationship between their senses of language expertise, affiliation, and inheritance. |
