The Multilingual Subject

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.

Claire Kramsch is Professor of German and Foreign Language Acquisition at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the former Director of the Berkeley Language Center, a research and development unit for all foreign language teachers on campus.