Social Identities and Multiple Selves in Foreign Language Education
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Social Identities and Multiple Selves in Foreign Language Education

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
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Social Identities and Multiple Selves in Foreign Language Education

About this book

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 created through use of the term 'foreign' (despite its position as an integral marker in language acquisition discourse). This book argues that individual identities are multidimensional constructs that gravitate around a hub of intricate social networks of multimodal intergroup interaction. The chapters pursue a collective desire to move the notion of identity away from theoretical abstraction and toward the lived experiences of foreign language teachers and students. While the identities entangled with these interactions owe a significant measure of their existence to the immediate social context, they can also be actively developed by their holders. The collection of chapters within this book demonstrate how foreign language education environments (traditional and non-traditional) are ideal locations for the development of a sophisticated repertoire of discursive strategies used in the formulation, navigation, expression and management of social identities and multiple selves.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. HalfTitle
  3. Series Page
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Notes on Contributors
  10. Introduction: Identities in Foreign Language Education
  11. 1 The Institutional and Beyond: On the Identity Displays of Foreign Language Teachers
  12. 2 Implications for Identity: Inhabiting the ‘Native-Speaker’ English Teacher Location in the Japanese Sociocultural Context
  13. 3 Professional Identities Shaped by Resistance to Target Language Only Policies
  14. 4 Language, Culture and Identity: Transcultural Practices and Theoretical Implications
  15. 5 Social Identifications and Culturally Located Identities: Developing Cultural Understanding through Literature
  16. 6 Reimagining Sociolinguistic Identification in Foreign Language Classroom Communities of Practice
  17. 7 The Foreign Language Imagined Learning Community: Developing Identity and Increasing Foreign Language Investment
  18. 8 Foreign Language Motivation and Social Identity Development
  19. 9 Emotive Accounts of the Self during an ERASMUS Sojourn Abroad
  20. 10 Setting Standards for Intercultural Communication: Universalism and Identity Change
  21. References
  22. Index