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Identity and second language learning : local Japanese learning Japanese in Hawaiʻi

Megumi Sugita (Author)
"This is an ethnographic case study of four Japanese American university students studying the Japanese language in Hawaiʻi. Drawing on Rampton's (1990) concepts of language expertise, inheritance, and affilication, this study investigates the role of the Japanese language in the construction of the students' identities" -- Abstract

Thesis, Dissertation, English, 2000
2000