The Multilingual Self: An Inquiry Into Language Learning

ISBN-13: 9780805823202 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 107 str.

Natasha Lvovich;Lvovich

Opis

This text relates the author's stories about how languages have integrated her being, and defined and formed her sense of self. The author who is a multilingual Russian immigrant, tells stories to help language students understand why and at what price successful language acquisition is realistic.

Recenzje

"...a formal, demonstration of the cognitive dissonance Natasha Lvovich painstakingly explores in her sensitive, introspective, and gently humorous memoir."
—Community Review

The Multilingual Self" teaches, inspires and empowers language learners and educators alike. This book can be included in the curricula of ESOL and BE classes.
—Literacy Update

"Teachers of ESL will enjoy Lvovich, the storyteller. Students of ESL will appreciate the hones depiction of language learning. Everyone will acknowledge this universal experience of creating an identity. I highly recommend it to all."
—Tesol Quarterly

"...a very well-written account, of experiences of learning and living which are more dramatic than any I have ever had to cope with, but which I can understand and empathise with, and finally marvel at....The writing itself is evocative and skillful, retaining just a trace of foreignness that seems to add an extra measure of authenticity to the authorial voice. The result is an intriguing and sometimes moving book which contributes on a variety of levels to our understanding of each other."
—TESL-EJ

"The Multilingual Self is a story to inspire second language learners and teachers, but it is also a poignant reminder to a nation of immigrants of how hard that journey to America actually is."
—MultiCultural Review

"Like Eva Hoffman's Lost in Translation, Alice Kaplan's French Lessons, and Liu Zongren's Two Years in the Melting Pot, this story of language and culture acquisition is a useful case study for students and teachers. The exceptionally rich, evocative prose will make good reading for anyone interested in language acquisition."
—Sarah Benesch
College of Staten Island, CUNY

"...An intriguing approach for understanding the process of language acquisition. Lvovich's 'stories'...provide genuinely lived and complex details of what it feels like, what it took, what made it possible, to acquire another language."
—Vivian Zamel
University of Massachusetts

Spis treści

Contents: S. Benesch, Foreword. Preface. My French Self. Confessions of a Synesthete. "Magister of the Game." Messengers and Mediators. French Connection. Language Acquisition by Stomach. My Italian Self. American Diary. Healing. French Disease. Driver's License. Frank or Pete? Interculture. Russian as a Second Language.

O autorze

Natasha Lvovich