Identity Trajectories Of Adult Second Language Learners

Author : Cristiana Palmieri
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781788922210

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Identity Trajectories of Adult Second Language Learners by Cristiana Palmieri Pdf

This book explores the motivations of adult second language (L2) learners to learn Italian in continuing education settings in Australia. It focuses on their motivational drives, learning trajectories and related dynamics of identity development triggered by the learning process. Central to the study are adult L2 learners, who are still a largely under-researched and growing group of learners, and readers will gain a better understanding of the learning process of this specific group of learners and ideas for sustaining L2 adult learning motivation in continuing education settings. Furthermore, the book discusses the role played by the Italian migrant community in Australia in making Italian a sought-after language to learn. It explores how a migrant community may influence motivation, and highlights and expands on the notion of L2 learning contexts, showing the existence of sociocultural environments where second language learning trajectories are affected by the presence of migrant groups.

Author : Patricia Andrew
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847696168

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The Social Construction of Age by Patricia Andrew Pdf

This book explores the social construction of age in the context of EFL in Mexico. It is the first book to address the age factor in SLA from a social perspective. Based on research carried out at a public university in Mexico, it investigates how adults of different ages experience learning a new language and how they enact their age identities as language learners. By approaching the topic from a social constructionist perspective and in light of recent work in sociolinguistics and cultural studies, it broadens the current second language acquisition focus on age as a fixed biological or chronological variable to encompass its social dimensions. What emerges is a more complex and nuanced understanding of age as it intersects with language learning in a way that links it fundamentally to other social phenomena, such as gender, ethnicity and social class.

Author : Colin J. Flynn
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781788927055

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Adult Minority Language Learning by Colin J. Flynn Pdf

This book examines the role of affective variables in the process of learning a minority language. It presents a comprehensive account of how adult learners’ attitude, motivation and identity are related to their awareness of, and commitment to, different dialects and varieties as target speech models. These issues are examined in the context of Irish, a minority language which does not have a standard spoken variety and where the vast majority of learners have no regular contact with native speakers. Using a mixed methods research approach, this study explores the relationships that exist between, on the one hand, learners’ attitudes towards the three main traditional dialects of Irish and non-traditional second language varieties, and on the other, their motivation and self-concept as second language learners.

Author : David Block
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781472571038

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Second Language Identities by David Block Pdf

Second Language Identities examines how identity is an issue in different second language learning contexts. It begins with a detailed presentation of what has become a popular approach to identity in the social sciences (including applied linguistics) today, one that is inspired in poststructuralist thought and is associated with the work of authors such as Anthony Giddens, Zygmunt Bauman, Chris Weedon, Judith Butler and Stuart Hall. It then examines how in early SLA research focussing on affective variables, identity was an issue, lurking in the wings but not coming to centre stage. Moving to the present, the book then examines in detail and critiques recent research focussing on identity in three distinct second language learning contexts. These contexts are: (1) adult migration, (2) foreign language classrooms and (3) study abroad programmes. The book concludes with suggestions for future research focussing on identity in second language learning.

Author : Vicky Duckworth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134089468

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Learning Trajectories, Violence and Empowerment amongst Adult Basic Skills Learners by Vicky Duckworth Pdf

Learning Trajectories, Violence and Empowerment amongst Adult Basic Skills Learners offers deep insights into the lives of marginalised communities and the link between learning, literacy and violence, not previously carried out in-depth in a small scale study. It breaks the negative stereo-types of adults who struggle to read and write, who are often labelled and stigmatised by dominant discourses, and in doing so exposes why and how Basic Skills Learners often find themselves in marginal positions. The structural inequalities many face from childhood to adulthood across the private and public domains of their lives are revealed and probed, thus challenging neo-liberalism claims of an apparently egalitarian social field. The learners’ narratives expose the contradiction, complexities and ambivalences they experience in their daily lives, and how they try to make sense of them from their structural positioning as basic skills learners in a society based on inequality of opportunity and choice. Applying a feminist, qualitative, longitudinal, ethnographic and participatory approach, the book offers a critical perspective, drawing on Bourdieu’s work as the theoretical framework, as well as using a range of feminist, sociologists of education, literature on the ethics of care and critical literacy pedagogy, including the New Literacy Studies. The author’s personal position as an ’insider’ with ‘insider knowledge’ of marginalised communities is also woven throughout the chapters and offers insights into the struggles, conformity and resistance faced by the participants in the study. The book contributes to the debate on the impact of violence on learning and its link to class, gender and basic skills as well opening up a discussion on the power of a critical curriculum to empower people across the domains of their lives. It will be valuable reading for trainee teachers, teachers, education and sociology students, postgraduate students, as well as literacy specialists, researchers, academics, policy makers and managers of public services.

Author : Assist. Prof. Julia Menard-Warwick
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847693815

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Gendered Identities and Immigrant Language Learning by Assist. Prof. Julia Menard-Warwick Pdf

Based on participant observation in a California English as a Second Language family literacy program, this ethnographic study examines how the complexly gendered life histories of immigrant adults shaped their participation in both the English language classroom and the education of their children, within the contemporary sociohistorical context of increasing Latin American immigration to the United States. Through outlining the connections between (gendered) identity work and language learning, this study builds theoretical and empirical justification for teachers to negotiate classroom practice with each community of learners, responding to students’ individual goals, histories, and lives outside the classroom.

Author : Gabriele Abbondanza,Simone Battiston
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789819932160

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Italy and Australia by Gabriele Abbondanza,Simone Battiston Pdf

This book offers a novel and comprehensive reappraisal of current relations between Italy and Australia. For the first time, it expands the scope of analysis by encompassing and critically reviewing research avenues that have been understudied so far. In order to pursue this objective, it provides innovative analyses on bilateral history, reciprocal migration, socio-cultural ties, international relations and trade, comparative politics, and scientific cooperation. By adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this book makes a significant contribution to multiple disciplinary literatures, benefitting social science scholars, policymakers, and professionals working in a number of fields. Mindful of the wide scope and multidisciplinary nature of this innovative research, the editors oversee a careful balance of different theories, methodologies, sources, and data, in accordance with the conventions of each discipline employed in this volume. As a result, this book encourages a broader and more nuanced understanding of Italian-Australian relations in the 21st century.

Author : Garold Murray,Xuesong Gao,Terry Lamb
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847693723

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Identity, Motivation and Autonomy in Language Learning by Garold Murray,Xuesong Gao,Terry Lamb Pdf

"Through the use of qualitative research methods, the authors explore the complex, contingent and dynamic nature of motivation, identity and autonomy --- both for language learners and teachers --- in many different parts of the world. Importantly, they also look for relationships among the three constructs. This is precisely the integrative approach that should be encouraged as we seek to understand the lived experience of individuals."---Diane Larsen-Freeman, University of Michigan, USA --

Author : Andreas Bonnet,Peter Siemund
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263858

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Foreign Language Education in Multilingual Classrooms by Andreas Bonnet,Peter Siemund Pdf

This volume challenges traditional approaches to foreign language education and proposes to redefine them in our age of international migration and globalization. Foreign language classrooms are no longer populated by monolingual students, but increasingly by multilingual students with highly diverse language backgrounds. This necessitates a new understanding of foreign language learning and teaching. The volume brings together an international group of researchers of high caliber who specialize in third language acquisition, teaching English as an additional language, and multilingual education. In addition to topical overview articles on the multilingual policies pursued in Europe, Africa, North America, and Asia, as well as several contributions dealing with theoretical issues regarding multilingualism and plurilingualism, the volume also offers cutting edge case studies from multilingual acquisition research and foreign language classroom practice. Throughout the volume, multilingualism is interpreted as a valuable resource that can facilitate language education provided it is harnessed in appropriate conditions.

Author : Elaine Mellen Day
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1853595977

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Identity and the Young English Language Learner by Elaine Mellen Day Pdf

This longitudinal, ethnographic case study examines the language socialization experiences of Hari, a Punjabi-speaking English language learner integrated in a mainstream kindergarten classroom in an urban area of British Columbia, Canada. The study uses sociocultural and critical/poststructural theoretical perspectives to explore the intimate connection between learning, identity and social membership in Hari's learning path. The book highlights the political and affective dynamics of classroom relationships and their unconscious as well as conscious dimensions and should be of interest to all researchers, students, and educators involved with minority language children in educational contexts.

Author : Bonny Norton
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783090570

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Identity and Language Learning by Bonny Norton Pdf

Identity and Language Learning draws on a longitudinal case study of immigrant women in Canada to develop new ideas about identity, investment, and imagined communities in the field of language learning and teaching. Bonny Norton demonstrates that a poststructuralist conception of identity as multiple, a site of struggle, and subject to change across time and place is highly productive for understanding language learning. Her sociological construct of investment is an important complement to psychological theories of motivation. The implications for language teaching and teacher education are profound. Now including a new, comprehensive Introduction as well as an Afterword by Claire Kramsch, this second edition addresses the following central questions: - Under what conditions do language learners speak, listen, read and write? - How are relations of power implicated in the negotiation of identity? - How can teachers address the investments and imagined identities of learners? The book integrates research, theory, and classroom practice, and is essential reading for students, teachers and researchers in the fields of language learning and teaching, TESOL, applied linguistics and literacy.

Author : ZhaoHong Han
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004-03-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781788920421

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Fossilization in Adult Second Language Acquisition by ZhaoHong Han Pdf

This book is a systematic attempt to address the issue of fossilization in relation to a fundamental question in second language acquisition research, which is: why are learners, adults in particular, unable to develop the level of competence they have aspired to in spite of continuous and sustained exposure to the target language, adequate motivation to learn, and sufficient opportunity to practice?

Author : Rosamond Mitchell,Nicole Tracy-Ventura,Kevin McManus
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Foreign study
ISBN : 9781329430440

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Social interaction, identity and language learning during residence abroad by Rosamond Mitchell,Nicole Tracy-Ventura,Kevin McManus Pdf

Author : Christiane Fäcke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110302257

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Manual of Language Acquisition by Christiane Fäcke Pdf

This manual contains overviews on language acquisition and distinguishes between first- and second-language acquisition. It also deals with Romance languages as foreign languages in the world and with language acquisition in some countries of the Romance-speaking world. This reference work will be helpful for researchers, students, and teachers interested in language acquisition in general and in Romance languages in particular.

Author : Julia Menard-Warwick
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847692139

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Gendered Identities and Immigrant Language Learning by Julia Menard-Warwick Pdf

This ethnographic study of a California English as a Second Language program explores how the gendered life experiences of immigrant adults shape their participation in both the English language classroom and the education of their children, within the contemporary sociohistorical context of Latin American immigration to the United States.