Being and becoming a speaker of Japanese : an autoethnographic account
Japanese language Second language acquisition sähkökirjat
Multilingual Matters
2011
EISBN 9781847693624
Acknowledgements; Part 1; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Postmodern Basis of Autoethnography; Chapter 2 Narrative Inquiry in SLA and Applied Linguistics; Part 2; Chapter 3 In the Beginning: Situating the Story; Chapter 4 In the Middle: Love, Marriage, Family; Chapter 5 Career Discourse(s); Chapter 6 Where I Am Now: Two Days in the Life of an Expatriate; Closing Discussion; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3; Appendix 4; Appendix 5; References; Index.
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.
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.
