Being and Becoming a Speaker of Japanese: An Autoethnographic Account

di Andrea Simon-Maeda (Autore)

Channel View Publications Ltd, 2011

This autoethnographic account of the author's Japanese as a second language learning trajectory is an important and unique addition to diary studies in SLA and applied linguistics qualitative research circles. In-depth ethnographic details and introspective commentary are skilfully interwoven throughout Simon-Maeda's narrative of her experiences as an American expatriate who arrived in Japan in 1975 - the starting point of her being and becoming a speaker of Japanese. The book joins the recent surge in postmodernist, interdisciplinary approaches to examining language acquisition, and readers are presented with a highly convincing case for using autoethnography to better understand sociolinguistic complexities that are unamenable to quantification of isolated variables. The comprehensive literature review and wide ranging references provide a valuable source of information for researchers, educators, and graduate students concerned with current issues in SLA/applied linguistics, bi/multilingualism, and Japanese as a second language.

• Autore: Andrea Simon-Maeda
• Editore: Channel View Publications Ltd
• Collana: Second Language Acquisition
• Anno: 2011
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 176 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• Peso: 276 gr.
• EAN: 9781847693600

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