Discourses, Identities and Investment in Foreign Language Learning (Second Language Acquisition, 154) - Hardcover

Martyn, Jennifer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1800415648 ISBN 13: 9781800415645

Verlag: Multilingual Matters, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

This book explores discourses of foreign language education in Ireland through an ethnographic lens. Taking a critical approach to SLA, it locates students' language ideologies within wider discourses of language learning, such as discourses of gender and language learning and discourses of elite multilingualism. It also examines the role of the imagined identity in language learning investment in a world where English and a limited number of other 'global' languages dominate the foreign language learning experience. The ethnographic approach provides a unique insight into the way in which dominant discourses of identity, gender, and foreign language learning are both constructed and resisted in the institutional context, shaping our understanding of what it means to be a gendered being and what it means to be a language learner in a globalised world. This book will be of interest to postgraduate students and researchers in the fields of SLA and sociolinguistics, as well as language teachers and language policymakers.

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Jennifer Martyn is Assistant Professor at Dublin City University, Ireland. Her research interests include the sociolinguistics of language learning, language learning discourses, and gender and language learning.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Multilingual Matters
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1800415648
• ISBN 13: 9781800415645
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176
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