Identity Trajectories of Adult Second Language Learners

2018-12-07
Identity Trajectories of Adult Second Language Learners

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  • Author: Cristiana Palmieri
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1788922212
  • Category : Psychology
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 122

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.

Italy and Australia

2023-12-30
Italy and Australia

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  • Author: Gabriele Abbondanza
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 9819932165
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 292

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.

Foreign Language Education in Multilingual Classrooms

2018-10-15
Foreign Language Education in Multilingual Classrooms

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  • Author: Andreas Bonnet
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
  • ISBN: 902726385X
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 433

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.

Second Language Identities

2014-09-11
Second Language Identities

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  • Author: David Block
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • ISBN: 1472571037
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 289

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.

Adult Minority Language Learning

2020-03-20
Adult Minority Language Learning

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  • Author: Colin J. Flynn
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1788927052
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 225

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.

The Social Construction of Age

2012-01-11
The Social Construction of Age

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  • Author: Patricia Andrew
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1847696163
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 197

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.

Manual of Language Acquisition

2014-08-25
Manual of Language Acquisition

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  • Author: Christiane Fäcke
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • ISBN: 311030225X
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 650

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.

Gendered Identities and Immigrant Language Learning

2009
Gendered Identities and Immigrant Language Learning

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  • Author: Julia Menard-Warwick
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1847692133
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 226

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.

The Power of Identity and Ideology in Language Learning

2016-05-09
The Power of Identity and Ideology in Language Learning

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  • Author: Peter I. De Costa
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 3319302116
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 173

This critical ethnographic school-based case study offers insights on the interaction between ideology and the identity development of individual English language learners in Singapore. Illustrated by case studies of the language learning experiences of five Asian immigrant students in an English-medium school in Singapore, the author examines how the immigrant students negotiated a standard English ideology and their discursive positioning over the course of the school year. Specifically, the study traces how the prevailing standard English ideology interacted in highly complex ways with their being positioned as high academic achievers to ultimately influence their learning of English. This potent combination of language ideologies and circulating ideologies created a designer student immigration complex. By framing this situation as a complex, the study problematizes the power of ideologies in shaping the trajectories and identities of language learners.

Concise Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics

2010-03-20
Concise Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics

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  • Author: Margie Berns
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISBN: 9780080965031
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 571

Concise Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics formalizes, organizes and analyzes the relation of knowledge about language to decision-making in practice. It synthesizes research in psycholinguistics, educational linguistics and sociolinguistics, freely crossing subject fields to establish innovative and expert responses to some of the key debates in the field. Authored and compiled by leaders in their various specialties and collated and extensively re-edited from the award-winning Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Second Edition, this collection will be an ideal one-stop desk reference solution for any linguistics professional and researcher interested in how language operates at the leading edge. Authoritative review of this dynamic field placed in an interdisciplinary context Over 100 articles by leaders in the field Compact and affordable single-volume format