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Being and Becoming a Speaker of Japanese: An Autoethnographic Account

Being and Becoming a Speaker of Japanese: An Autoethnographic Account

Simon-Maeda, Andrea

Hardcover

Series: Second Language Acquisition, Book 53

JapaneseLinguistics

ISBN10: 184769361X
ISBN13: 9781847693617
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
Published: Mar 15 2011
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

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.

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