The Multilingual Subject

By drawing on multiple examples of real-world language learning situations, this book explores the subjective aspects of the language learning experience.

The Multilingual Subject

Claire Kramsch

prize graphic icon Winner MLA Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize 2009

This book explores the subjective aspects of language learning, skillfully integrating multiple levels of analysis, and bridging the gap between theory and practice. 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. The author encourages readers to consider foreign language learning from new, diverse, and unique perspectives.

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This book explores the subjective aspects of language learning, skillfully integrating multiple levels of analysis, and bridging the gap between theory and practice. 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. The author encourages readers to consider foreign language learning from new, diverse, and unique perspectives.

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  • Kramsch vividly demonstrates how multilingual subjects deploy symbolic forms to craft the self and to construct subjective realities. |s Houxiang Li, Applied Linguistics |d 05/12/2010

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