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What Is the Meaning of Life Story Research in Language Education?
NAKANO, Chino*
* Graduate School of Japanese Applied linguistics, Waseda University E-mail address: chino@bc.iij4u.or.jp
Abstract
This study clarified the relationship between the learning of languages and the gaze by pay- ing attention to a gaze that appeared in the life story of a woman with multilingual back- grounds. As a result, the place of the life story interview transformed the place of rais- ing up relationship . On the place, there was established the gaze which reflects deeply on
languages and life . The process of the interview will be the process of raising the gaze at language learning and also cultural practices . There actually is the meaning of life story research in language education.
Keywords
gaze, life story, multilingual backgrounds, self-referential descriptions, cultural practices Research Paper
