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Yoshimi Maenos research helps us think about all these issues how culturally and linguistically specific stories are, but also how important it is to learn to produce stories accessible to native speakers of our second languages, and to understand stories told by second language speakers of our native languages. Stories play too many important roles in our lives, in our memories, in our communication with each other about matters of critical importance, to be left unexamined and ineffective in meeting their goals. Second language learners rely too much on their stories as a way of making their way in their new surroundings to be left without the most effective possible instruction in how to tell them and how to understand them. Maenos book opens up this crucial and fascinating area of research; it also exemplifies the standards of rigor and insight in approaching these questions that we hope future research into related topics can meet. This research tells a powerful story. Professor Catherine Snow, Harvard University
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