Foreign Language Acquisition in Eva Hoffman’s Lost in Translation a Life in a New Language

摘要

Eva Hoffman’s Lost in Translation: A life in a New Language occupies a unique place in American migrant literature in that it serves as an autobiographical account of the author’s personal experiences of acquiring English as a otherness. In this light,by exploring the coveted relationship between foreign language learners’ own cultural and language identity, the paper aims to investigate the probabilities of optimizing L2 learners culminate in both cultural and social domains of life.