Social identities and multiple selves in foreign language education

Social identities and multiple selves in foreign language education / edited by Damian J. Rivers and Stephanie Ann Houghton.

Within foreign language education contexts across the globe, inadequate attention has been paid to documenting the dynamics of identity development, negotiation and management. This book looks at these dynamics in specific relation to otherness, in addition to attitudinal and behavioural overtones c...

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Other Authors: Rivers, Damian J., Houghton, Stephanie, 1969-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.
Subjects:
Language and languages > Study and teaching.
Language acquisition.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > General.
Language and languages > Study and teaching
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • HalfTitle
  • Series Page
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction: Identities in Foreign Language Education
  • Overview of the volume
  • 1 The Institutional and Beyond: On the Identity Displays of Foreign Language Teachers
  • Introduction
  • The difficulties of identifying identity
  • Identity as social competence: Contexts and boundaries
  • Identity and language
  • Language learning and learner identity
  • Teacher identity and professionalism: Teaching as identity work
  • Data and methodology
  • Analysis: L2 teachers' self-categorizations
  • The teachers' orientation to self-derision
  • Data discussion
  • Self-categorization practices and pedagogical functions: Cognition and emotion
  • Limitations of the data presented
  • Conclusion
  • Transcription conventions
  • 2 Implications for Identity: Inhabiting the 'Native-Speaker' English Teacher Location in the Japanese Sociocultural Context
  • Introduction
  • The 'native-speaker' conspiracy
  • Furnishing the imagination
  • The study
  • Data analysis and discussion
  • Implications and conclusions
  • 3 Professional Identities Shaped by Resistance to Target Language Only Policies
  • Introduction
  • Beginnings: Becoming a late French immersion teacher in Canada
  • Moving to Japan: Moving from French immersion to EFL teaching
  • Returning to LFI teaching and pursuing an M. Ed.
  • Working as an EFL teacher-researcher at a private university in Japan
  • Third time lucky: Successful policy change from the bottom up
  • Conclusion
  • 4 Language, Culture and Identity: Transcultural Practices and Theoretical Implications
  • Introduction
  • Literature review
  • Research design
  • Findings
  • Across-group findings
  • Discussion
  • Conclusion.
  • 5 Social Identifications and Culturally Located Identities: Developing Cultural Understanding through Literature
  • Introduction
  • The investigation
  • Data presentation: The case of Tess
  • Discussion
  • Conclusion
  • 6 Reimagining Sociolinguistic Identification in Foreign Language Classroom Communities of Practice
  • Introduction
  • The sociolinguistic reality of multiple and shifting identities
  • Traditionally imagined identities
  • nationalist paradigms in the foreign language classroom
  • Communities of practice
  • a model for imagining multimembership
  • Implications for practice in foreign language classrooms
  • Summary
  • Conclusion
  • 7 The Foreign Language Imagined Learning Community: Developing Identity and Increasing Foreign Language Investment
  • Introduction
  • Background
  • Present study
  • Discussion of results
  • Conclusion
  • 8 Foreign Language Motivation and Social Identity Development
  • Introduction
  • Identity in foreign language learning motivation research
  • Participants
  • Methodology and design
  • Findings
  • Discussion
  • Conclusion
  • 9 Emotive Accounts of the Self during an ERASMUS Sojourn Abroad
  • Introduction
  • Researching affective lexicon
  • Methodology
  • Emotive accounts of self
  • Discussion
  • Transcription conventions
  • 10 Setting Standards for Intercultural Communication: Universalism and Identity Change
  • Introduction
  • The Intercultural Dialogue Model
  • The study
  • Data analysis
  • Data presentation
  • Discussion
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Index.

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