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A Non-Cantonese Speaker’s “Growing Pains” at a Foreign Language Institute in Guangzhou: An Autoethnographic Approach to Bilingualism/Trilingualism
School of English and Education, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China
- 1 School of English and Education, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China
Open Journal of Modern Linguistics·Volume 06 (2016)·Pages 127–130·Published 17 March 2016·DOI10.4236/ojml.2016.62013
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Abstract
The present study focuses on an individual’s living experience in a trilingual culture, with some of her peers’ stories as support. The autoethnographic study hopes to find how a non-native has settled down in a Cantonese-speaking city linguistically, especially when she is a learner and teacher of English at the same time.
KeywordsCantoneseAutoethnographicBilingualism/Trilingualism
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