Being and Becoming a Speaker of Japanese: An Auto-Ethnographic Account (Second Language Acquisition)

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.