Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/q9agbe Being and Becoming a Speaker of Japanese An Autoethnographic Account By: Andrea Simon-Maeda Publisher: Multilingual Matters (NBN) Print ISBN: 9781847693600, 1847693601 eText ISBN: 9781847693624, 1847693628 Edition: 1st Format: PDF Available from $ 25.00 USD SKU 9781847693624 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.
