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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Andrea Simon-MaedaPublisher: Channel View Publications Ltd Imprint: Multilingual Matters Volume: 53 Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.276kg ISBN: 9781847693600ISBN 10: 1847693601 Pages: 176 Publication Date: 15 March 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsSimon-Maeda's poignant autoethnography makes a compelling reading, whose significance transcends that of a common autobiography. Interweaving personal experiences with scholarly insights, her feminist account illuminates the socio-political situatedness of second language learning and reveals ways in which a second language self is fashioned both within and against norms prevalent in one's adopted society. Aneta Pavlenko, Temple University Simon-Maeda's poignant autoethnography makes a compelling reading, whose significance transcends that of a common autobiography. Interweaving personal experiences with scholarly insights, her feminist account illuminates the socio-political situatedness of second language learning and reveals ways in which a second language self is fashioned both within and against norms prevalent in one's adopted society. -- Aneta Pavlenko, Temple University Overall, the rich, multilayered analysis as well as the clarity and balance with which she approaches the subject, makes this book worthwhile reading for researchers, teachers, and language learners alike. She argues convincingly, and her book shows us that it is indeed so, that autoethnographies can teach us much about the relationship between language learning, identity, and social contexts. -- Abigail McMeekin, University of Lethbridge Studies in Second Language Acquisition / Volume 34 / Issue 03 / September 2012, pp 525 525 It's a fascinating book both as a scholarly look at the nature of language learning and as a documentation of the human experience of living across two or more cultures. This book is a timely and valuable contribution to understanding the essentially social characteristic of learning a language and becoming a participant in a language community. -- Michael Carroll, Momoyama Gakuin University, Osaka, Japan JALT Journal, Vol. 34, No. 2, November 2012 Author InformationAndrea 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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