Being and becoming a speaker of Japanese : an autoethnographic account /
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 t...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Bristol ; Buffalo :
Multilingual Matters,
2011.
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Colección: | Second language acquisition (Clevedon, England)
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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 a. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 166 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781847693624 1847693628 9781847694973 1847694977 184769361X 9781847693617 |