Being and Becoming a Speaker of Japanese - An Auto-ethnographic Account

Informationen zum Autor Andrea Simon-Maeda is an Associate Professor in the Department of Early Childhood Education at Nagoya Keizai University where she teaches English as a foreign language. She has published articles in TESOL Quarterly and the International Multilingual Research Journal and served as a coordinator and editor for the Gender Awareness in Language Education Special Interest Group of the Japan Association for Language Teaching. Her main research interests are bi/multilingualism and gender issues in societal and educational contexts, and her professional educator career in Japan spans 35 years of tertiary level EFL instruction. Klappentext Taking an autoethnographic approach, this book highlights the mutually constitutive relationship of language acquisition, sociocultural contexts and L2 identities. The personalized account of the author's Japanese as a second language development is skilfully interwoven with ethnographic details and introspective commentary. Zusammenfassung Taking an autoethnographic approach, this book highlights the mutually constitutive relationship of language acquisition, sociocultural contexts and L2 identities. The personalized account of the author’s Japanese as a second language development is skilfully interwoven with ethnographic details and introspective commentary.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Andrea Simon-Maeda, Andrea Maeda Simon, A Simon-Maeda, Andrea Simon-Maeda
• Edition: University of Toronto Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 15.03.2011
• EAN: 9781847693600
• ISBN: 978-1-84769-360-0
• Thèmes: Second Language Acquisition; Second Language Acquisition
• Catégories: Ecole et pédagogie > Formation pour adultes/université populaire > Matériel de cours/formation adultes langue; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Autres langues / Autres littératures