Portraits of Second Language Learners (eBook)

An L2 Learner Agency Perspective

Chie Muramatsu (Autor)

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2018
Channel View Publications (Verlag)
978-1-78309-989-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Using L2 socialization theory as a theoretical framework, this book investigates the ways in which four learners of Japanese exercise their agency to pursue their learning goals and documents how the diverse ways in which they do so form different trajectories of learning and create different experiences of L2 socialization.

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Using second language (L2) socialization theory as a theoretical framework, this book investigates the ways in which four advanced learners of Japanese on an immersion program in the USA exercise their agency to pursue their language learning goals. The work presents their learner portraits and documents the different ways in which the four learners negotiate the meaning of their participations in the new community of practice, navigate and shape the trajectories of their learning and eventually achieve their goals of learning from their emic perspectives. The book re-examines Norton's (2000) constructs of investment, investigates its applicability and argues that L2 learners' desires and drives for learning an L2 are more diverse, unique and contextually situated than Norton's notion of investment alone can explain. The research will be of interest to researchers and students in the fields of applied linguistics, second language acquisition, foreign language education and language and literacy education.

Autor

lt;p>Chie Muramatsu holds a PhD in Second Language Acquisition from the University of Iowa, USA and has worked as a teacher and lecturer in Japanese, most recently at Stanford University, USA. Within the field of second language acquisition, her work focuses on Japanese as a foreign language and her particular interest is in narrative inquiry, the stories of second language learners and the dynamic yet intimate interplay between their personal variables and the social world in which they live.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Second Language Socialization, Community, and L2 Learner Agency                                           

Chapter 3. Community                                                                                                                                 

Chapter 4. Parker: Lost Opportunities, Reconnection, and Transforming                                                       

Chapter 5. Alison: Shame, Resistance, and Overcoming                                                                                       

Chapter 6. Naiya: Separation, Resistance, and Accomplishing                                                                           

Chapter 7. Danielle: Identities, Ambivalence, and Becoming                                                                             

Chapter 8. Conclusion                                                                                                                                                                     

                                                                                                                  

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.5.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Second Language Acquisition
• Reihe/Serie: Second Language Acquisition
• Verlagsort: Bristol
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Community of Practice • Ethnographic Studies • L2 Japanese learning • L2 learner agency • L2 learners of Japanese • L2 learner variability • L2 socialization • L2 socialization theory • language learner agency • language learner trajectories • Middlebury Language Schools • narrative inquiry • Norton’s (2000) notion of investment • Second language socialization • stories of L2 learners
• ISBN-10: 1-78309-989-5 / 1783099895
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78309-989-4 / 9781783099894