Advisor

Marjorie S. Terdal

Date of Award

1992

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (M.A.) in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

Department

Applied Linguistics

Physical Description

1 online resource (193 p.)

Subjects

Susan Elizabeth Hemstreet -- Diaries, Foreign teachers -- Employment -- Japan -- Diaries, English language -- Study and teaching -- Japan, Culture shock -- Japan, Adjustment (Psychology)

Abstract

The focus of the ethnographic diary study is introduced and contextualized in the opening chapter with a site description. The thesis examines the diaries written during a sojourn of over two years in Japan . and proposes to answer the question, "How did the sojourner's initial maladjustment subsequently develop into satisfactory adjustment?"

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https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/25704

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