Books by Yasuko Kanno

This book provides an in-depth look into the systemic undereducation of high school English learners and the role of high schools in limiting ELs' postsecondary options, despite the availability of resources and the best of intentions, through a longitudinal ethnographic case study of a diverse high school in Pennsylvania.

An examination of the changing linguistic and cultural identities of bilingual students through the narratives of four Japanese returnees as they spent their adolescent years in North America and then returned to Japan to attend university. It analyses how their identities were shaped over time.