Emerging Self-Identities and Emotion in Foreign Language Learning

Masuko Miyahara is Lecturer at the International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan. She has been working in the field for over 20 years and her areas of interest include identity studies and language learning, autonomy, emotions in language learning and methodological issues related to language learning research.

• Overview of the ResearchAcknowledgmentsResearcher’s BackgroundChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Theoretical FrameworksChapter 3. Narrative Approach: Identities Studies and EmotionsChapter 4. The Research Design, the Site, Participants, Data Collection and AnalysisChapter 5. Sayaka and Megumi ‘s Stories: Authenticate and Strengthen the L2 Possible SelvesChapter 6. Megumi and Yui’s Stories: Desires to Create and Develop the L2 Possible SelvesChapter 7. Hinako and Takehiro’s Stories: Ambivalent Desires to Create the L2 Possible SelvesChapter 8. An Attempt to Weave the Threads Together:Chapter 9. Conclusion and AfterwordFigures and Tables　Appendices

Miyahara’s detailed and illuminating narrative study of university students in Japan offers new insights into the role of experience and emotion in language learning in an EFL context. This book brings to life both current theories surrounding identity and motivation in language learning and complex methodological issues that arise in the research of these important concepts.