Showing papers on "Identity and Language Learning published in 2018"
TL;DR: In this paper, the identity negotiation and strategic language efforts of a female postgraduate learner of English from a rural Arab background were documented, and a series of individual semi-structured interviews were used as the main data, with a variety of means, including written narrative and email exchanges.
Abstract: This paper documents the identity negotiation and strategic language efforts of a female postgraduate learner of English from a rural Arab background. She needed to obtain a high score in the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) exam as a prerequisite to getting an unconditional offer from a UK university. The narrative inquiry reported here used a series of individual semi-structured interviews as the main data, with a variety of means, including written narrative and email exchanges. It is guided by Dornyei [(2009). The L2 motivational self system. In Motivation, Language Identity and the L2 Self, ed. Z. Dornyei and E. Ushioda, 9–42. Bristol: Multilingual Matters] concept of ‘possible selves’, and Norton [(2000). Identity and Language Learning: Gender, Ethnicity and Educational Change. Harlow: Longman/Pearson Education] notion of investment in language learning and the distinction between compulsory (i.e. largely regulated by cultural beliefs) and voluntary (i.e. basically internalised within t...
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