The multilingual subject : what foreign language learners say about their experience and why it matters / Claire Kramsch.
2009
P115.4 .K73 2009 (Mapit)
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Title
The multilingual subject : what foreign language learners say about their experience and why it matters / Claire Kramsch.
Author
Kramsch, Claire J.
ISBN
9780194424783 (pbk.)
0194424782 (pbk.)
0194424782 (pbk.)
Publication Details
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Language
English
Description
xii, 231 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
P115.4 .K73 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
401.9/3
Summary
"This book explores the subjective aspects of language learning. It analyzes data gathered from published testimonies and language memoirs of former language learners, spoken and written data from American college language learners, and online data from language learners in electronic chatrooms and text messaging exchanges. In her analysis of these data, Kramsch highlights the subjective aspects of the language-learning experience. Topics investigated include links with memory, emotion, and the imagination, as well as the relationship between symbolic form and the development of a multilingual subjectivity. The author encourages readers to consider foreign language learning from new, diverse, and unique perspectives." -- from back cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [212]-224) and index.
Series
Oxford applied linguistics.
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