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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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Book category Books in English Language linguistics Psycholinguistics

• Full title: Being and Becoming a Speaker of Japanese
• Author: A Simon-Maeda
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176
• EAN: 9781847693600
• ISBN: 1847693601
• ID: 04421810
• Publisher: Channel View Publications Ltd
• Weight: 276 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 158 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. March 2011

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