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Omschrijving
Using L2 socialization theory as a theoretical framework, this book investigates the ways in which four learners of Japanese exercise their agency to pursue their learning goals and documents how the diverse ways in which they do so form different trajectories of learning and create different experiences of L2 socialization.
Chie Muramatsu combines consummate storytelling with theoretical insight in this contribution to an emerging body of research on L2 learners. Her portraits of four Japanese language learners paint a vivid picture of L2 learning as socially situated lived experience in which the learner’s agency plays a crucial role.
This is a great study of diverse social processes of individuals in language learning. It highlights the role of social agency and the dialogic relationship of learners and social community in their language learning and identity construction. This study adds a rich dimension to the L2 learning process and theory.
Muramatsu’s book, focusing on the qualities of domestic immersion through detailed case studies, is a lucidly written and significant contribution to socially-oriented research on foreign language education. Solid erudition deftly combined with compelling storytelling make this volume a joy to read.
Chie Muramatsu holds a PhD in Second Language Acquisition from the University of Iowa, USA and has worked as a teacher and lecturer in Japanese, most recently at Stanford University, USA. Within the field of second language acquisition, her work focuses on Japanese as a foreign language and her particular interest is in narrative inquiry, the stories of second language learners and the dynamic yet intimate interplay between their personal variables and the social world in which they live.