Globalisation and Second Language Identity
Author: Manfred Man-fat Wu
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published:
Total Pages: 163
ISBN-13: 3031682483
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Motivation, Language Attitudes and Globalisation
Author: Zoltán Dörnyei
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2006-04-12
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 1847698980
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume presents the results of the largest ever language attitude/motivation survey in second language studies. The research team gathered data from over 13,000 Hungarian language learners on three successive occasions: in 1993, 1999 and 2004. The examined period covers a particularly prominent time in Hungary’s history, the transition from a closed, Communist society to a western-style democracy that became a member of the European Union in 2004. Thus, the book provides an ‘attitudinal/motivational flow-chart’ describing how significant sociopolitical changes affect the language disposition of a nation. The investigation focused on the appraisal of five target languages – English, German, French, Italian and Russian – and this multi-language design made it also possible to observe the changing status of the different languages in relation to each other over the examined 12-year period. Thus, the authors were in an ideal position to investigate the ongoing impact of language globalisation in a context where for various political/historical reasons certain transformation processes took place with unusual intensity and speed. The result is a unique blueprint of how and why language globalisation takes place in an actual language learning environment.
China and English
Author: Joseph Lo Bianco
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 1847692281
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChina has become the world's largest English learning society, and China's decisions in relation to English will directly affect its fortunes into the future. This unique volume explores the prospects of English in relation to the debates on identity and cultural values that mass English teaching in China have stimulated.
Identity and Language Learning
Author: Bonny Norton
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2013-10-04
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 178309057X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIdentity 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.
Motivation, Language Identity and the L2 Self
Author: Zoltán Dörnyei
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2009-01-12
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 1847696759
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDue to its theoretical and educational significance within the language learning process, the study of L2 motivation has been an important area of second language acquisition research for several decades. Over the last few years L2 motivation research has taken an exciting new turn by focusing increasingly on the language learner’s situated identity and various self-perceptions. As a result, the concept of L2 motivation is currently in the process of being radically reconceptualised and re-theorised in the context of contemporary notions of self and identity. With contributions by leading European, North American and Asian scholars, this volume brings together the first comprehensive anthology of key conceptual and empirical papers that mark this important paradigmatic shift.
Cultural Globalization and Language Education
Author: B. Kumaravadivelu
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780300111101
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe live in a world that is marked by the twin processes of economic and cultural globalization. In this thought provoking book, Kumaravadivelu explores the impact of cultural globalization on second and foreign language education.
Language Policy and Language Planning
Author: Sue Wright
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-08
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 1137576472
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis revised second edition is a comprehensive overview of why we speak the languages that we do. It covers language learning imposed by political and economic agendas as well as language choices entered into willingly for reasons of social mobility, economic advantage and group identity.
English as a Global Language
Author: David Crystal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-03-29
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 1107611806
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Motivation, Language Identity and the L2 Self
Author: Zoltán Dörnyei
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 1847691277
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith contributions by leading European, North American and Asian scholars, this volume offers a comprehensive anthology of conceptual and empirical papers describing the latest developments in L2 motivation research that involves the reframing of motivation in the context of contemporary notions of self and identity.
Identity and Language Learning
Author: Bonny Norton
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2013-09-27
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1783090553
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIdentity 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 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.
