Given the pressure on learners to achieve high secondlanguageproficiency, one question worth asking is, what arethe consequencesof additional language on the sense of self? Toexperience personalityand emotion, hold values and to display norms of thehost society, eventhe desire to assimilate into a target culture arenot influence free. Thisbook attempts to make a contribution by investigatingthe social,linguistic and philosophical dimensions that promoteJapaneselanguage learning. The four purposes of the studymotivated aqualitative approach using an edited topical lifehistory technique tocollect data. Four Caucasian Australian women and twoCaucasianAustralian men where chosen from a pool of Japaneselanguagelearners using Japanese in the workplace. Emergingfrom the analysisof the data comes the term 'identity slippage' whichis discussedthroughout the book.
William S. Armour has been learning Japanese as an additionallanguage since 1973.He has taught Japanese at both secondary school and universitysince 1980. Hisresearch interests include additional language identities,constructions of masculinityin Japanese manga and anime, and the representation of Japanesenationals inHollywood film.
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William S. Armour has been learning Japanese as an additional
language since 1973.
He has taught Japanese at both secondary school and university
since 1980. His
research interests include additional language identities,
constructions of masculinity
in Japanese manga and anime, and the representation of Japanese
nationals in
Hollywood film.
