Being And Becoming A Speaker Of Japanese

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Being And Becoming A Speaker Of Japanese

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Author : Andrea Simon-Maeda
language : en
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Release Date : 2011

Being And Becoming A Speaker Of Japanese written by Andrea Simon-Maeda and has been published by Multilingual Matters this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

In this postmodernist addition to diary studies in SLA and applied linguistics, an autoethnographic approach is used to highlight 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.

Being And Becoming A Speaker Of Japanese

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Author : Andrea Simon-Maeda
language : en
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Release Date : 2011-03-15

Being And Becoming A Speaker Of Japanese written by Andrea Simon-Maeda and has been published by Multilingual Matters this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

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.

Multilingual Communication

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Author : Juliane House
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2004

Multilingual Communication written by Juliane House and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

In a world of increasing migration and technological progress, multilingual communication has become the rule rather than the exception. This book reflects the growing interest in understanding communication between members of different linguistic groups and contains a collection of original papers by members of the German Science Foundation's research center on multilingualism at Hamburg University and by international experts, offering an overview of the most important research fields in multilingual communication. The book is divided into four sections dealing with interpreting and translation, code-switching in various institutional contexts, two important strands of multilingual communication: rapport and politeness, and contrastive studies of Japanese and German grammar and discourse. The editor's preface presents the relevant theoretical and methodological background to the issues discussed in this book and points to useful directions for future research.

Functional Variations In English

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Author : Ram Ashish Giri
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-09-14

Functional Variations In English written by Ram Ashish Giri and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-14 with Education categories.

This volume is a compilation of 21 distinguished chapters, an Introduction, and an Afterword with a thematic focus on the functional variations of English in non-native contexts. Highly acclaimed scholars in the field of (applied) linguistics, bringing their expertise from the core areas of general linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, educational linguistics, and stylistics, address the ways in which English language varies in different contexts. The contributions carefully examine the variations, the complexities and the concerns arising thereof, and explore the resultant pedagogical implications. The volume, in this respect, contributes to an informed process for policy decisions, curriculum design, material development, and most importantly classroom practices based on the ability, feasibility and desirability of English for the users, as a step towards nurturing globally-minded, globally-competent, and globally-functioning individuals. Taking the deliberations through and beyond Kachru’s world Englishes model of three circles, this book is an attempt to: See what the users of English ‘do’ or ‘do not do’ with the language, rather than ‘where’ they come from Create a flexible mindset to enable acceptance and respect for linguistic variations in English usage Promote practical abilities for language and ‘communication management’ Facilitate informed pedagogical practices based on global realities

Language Ideologies And L2 Speaker Legitimacy

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Author : Jae DiBello Takeuchi
language : en
Publisher: Channel View Publications
Release Date : 2023-03-27

Language Ideologies And L2 Speaker Legitimacy written by Jae DiBello Takeuchi and has been published by Channel View Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-27 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

This book examines dilemmas faced by second language (L2) Japanese speakers as a result of persistent challenges to their legitimacy as speakers of Japanese. Based on an ethnographic interview study with L2-Japanese speakers and their L1-Japanese-speaking friends, co-workers and significant others, the book examines ideologies linked to three core speech styles of Japanese – keigo or polite language, gendered language and regional dialects – to show how such ideologies impact L2-Japanese speakers. The author demonstrates that speaker legitimacy is often tenuous for L2 speakers and argues that, despite increasing numbers of Japanese-speaking foreign residents in Japan, native speaker bias remains a persistent issue for L2-Japanese speakers living and working in Japan. This book extends the discussion of native speaker bias beyond educational contexts, and in the process reveals tensions between how L2 speakers aspire to speak and how L1 speakers expect them to speak.

English Bilingual Project

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Author : Mathew Varghese
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-10-31

English Bilingual Project written by Mathew Varghese and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-31 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

Today, English is the global lingua franca and competent English communication skills should be one of the rights of all educated individuals irrespective of any socio-cultural limits. By introducing a new method, this book focuses on helping any learner to get sufficient communication skills in English as much as in the native language. This method helps one to avoid translating from mother tongue to English. And by using the method of thinking in English, one could acquire the required English bilingual skills naturally. The method is founded on the philosophical idea of mentalese—mind language as the base language of thinking available for humans for constructing thoughts. The proposed English Bilingual Project (EBP) helps one to transfer thoughts from a structureless mentalese to the grammatical structure of any language English/Japanese/Chinese. The method described in this book works in two ways: one it helps one to intuitively understand the working of mentalese; the other is by practicing think in English with the mentalese, one could generate the bilingual brain. The main procedure for transferring thoughts from the mentalese to English is through writing one’s thoughts. This helps one to think effectively in English like one’s own mother tongue. This method works as a prime requirement model for one to generate multilingual skills. The book resourced the idea of mentalese from the classical philosophy, reflects it with the modern generative theories, links it with the studies in neuro-linguistic studies on bilingualism and the bilingual brain.

The Native Speaker Concept

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Author : Neriko Musha Doerr
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2009-12-22

The Native Speaker Concept written by Neriko Musha Doerr and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-22 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

The "native speaker" is often thought of as an ideal language user with "a complete and possibly innate competence in the language" which is perceived as being bounded and fixed to a homogeneous speech community and linked to a nation-state. Despite recent works that challenge its empirical accuracy and theoretical utility, the notion of the "native speaker" is still prevalent today. The Native Speaker Concept shifts the analytical focus from the second language acquisition processes and teaching practices to daily interactions situated in wider sociocultural and political contexts marked by increased global movements of people and multilingual situations. Using an ethnographic approach, the volume critically elucidates the political nature of (not) claiming the "native speaker" status in daily life and the ways the ideology of "native speaker" intersects and articulates, supports, subverts, or complicates various relations of dominance and regimes of standardization. The book offers cases from diverse settings, including classrooms in Japan, a coffee shop in Barcelona, secondary schools in South Africa, a backyard in Rapa Nui (Easter Island), restaurant kitchens, a high school administrator's office, a college classroom in the United States, and the Internet. It also offers a genealogy of the notion of the "native speaker" from the time of the Roman Empire. Employing linguistic, anthropological and educational theories, the volume speaks not only to the analyses of language use and language policy, planning, and teaching, but also to the investigation of wider effects of language ideology on relations of dominance, and institutional and discursive practices.

The Japan Daily Mail

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1884

The Japan Daily Mail written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1884 with categories.

Native Speakerism In Japan

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Author : Stephanie Ann Houghton
language : en
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Release Date : 2013-02-19

Native Speakerism In Japan written by Stephanie Ann Houghton and has been published by Multilingual Matters this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-19 with Education categories.

The relative status of native and non-native speaker language teachers within educational institutions has long been an issue worldwide but until recently, the voices of teachers articulating their own concerns have been rare. This innovative volume explores language-based forms of prejudice against native-speaker teachers.

Japanese

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Author : Amanda Richards
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-01-15

Japanese written by Amanda Richards and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-15 with categories.

Japanese Learn To Speak Japanese - The Complete Beginners Guide To Start Speaking Japanese Right Now! To learn the Japanese is a very easy task that can be done without putting any extra effort if you are keen enough. All you need is to understand its basic grammar along with some vocabulary which is also very much easy to be learnt and which will lead you towards making yourself to be a fluent speaker of Japanese. There can be so many tools by using which you can learn the Japanese language and there are some awesome tricks you can practice to have a superior knowledge of leering Japanese without having any sort of difficulty in your way. This book is going to make you learn the complete basic knowledge of Japanese language so that you become able to become an expert in it without facing any kind of problem. By having a great focus on some basics and the grammar portion of the language which is being widely used in Japan, you can make yourself able to learn it fully without facing any ambiguity at any point of time. Make sure that you are committed enough to learn it with full passion as it will help you out in learning the language in an easier way. So, if you really want to learn the Japanese language then download this book and be successful in learning Japanese as I have added the following things in this book to make you able to have a proper understanding of it: Some basics for making your base to learn Japanese: How you can make use of Japanese grammar to learn the language Going through the basics Make your knowledge perfect with Japanese verb, nouns, alphabets and counting Basic concepts of Japanese grammar