Social Identities and Multiple Selves in Foreign Language Education

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

AvDamian J. Rivers,Stephanie Ann Houghton,Damian J. Rivers

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2015-01-29
Mått156 x 234 x 14 mm
Vikt367 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781474218870

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Notes on Contributors Introduction: Identities in “Foreign” Language Education, Damian J. Rivers and Stephanie Ann Houghton 1. The Institutional and Beyond: On the Identity Displays of Foreign Language Teachers, Jose Aguilar2. Implications for Identity: Inhabiting the “Native-Speaker” English Teacher Location in the Sociocultural Context of Japan, Damian J. Rivers 3. Professional Identities Shaped by Resistance to Target Language Only Policies, Brian A. McMillan4. Language, Culture and Identity: Transcultural Practices and Theoretical Implications, Claudia Kunschak and Felix Giron 5. Social Identifications and Culturally Located Identities: Developing Cultural Understanding Through Literature, Melina Porto 6. Re-Imagining Sociolinguistic Identification in Foreign Language Classroom Communities of Practice, Deborah Cole And Bryan Meadows7. The L2 Imagined Learning Community: Developing Identity and Increasing Foreign Language Investment, John W. Schwieter8. Foreign Language Motivation and Social Identity Development, Lou Harvey9. Emotive Accounts of the Self During an Erasmus Sojourn Abroad, Sonia Gallucci 10. Setting Standards for Intercultural Communication: Universalism and Identity Change, Stephanie Ann HoughtonReferences Index

This book is a collection of papers that together offer a bold and refreshingly new take on the many trials and tribulations that ELT professionals across the world—all of them, irrespective of where they come from and what credentials they bring along with them—go through as they negotiate their identities and strive to role-play these new identities against the backdrop of what their profession demands and what the public at large expects of them.