Identity Formation in Globalizing Contexts: Language Learning in the New Millennium

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2011

Identity Formation in Globalizing Contexts

Language Learning in the New Millennium

Edited by: Christina Higgins

Volume 1 in the series Language and Social Processes [LSP]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110267280

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About this book

The volume explores how new millennium globalization mediates language learning and identity construction. It seeks to theorize how global flows are creating new identity options for language learners, and to consider the implications for language learning, teaching and use. To frame the chapters theoretically, the volume asserts that new identities are developing because of the increasingly interconnected set of global scapes which impact language learners' lives. Part 1 focuses on language learners in (trans)national contexts, exploring their identity formation when they shuttle between cultures and when they create new communities of fellow transnationals. Part 2 examines how learners come to develop intercultural selves as a consequence of experiencing global contact zones when they sojourn to new contexts for study and work. Part 3 investigates how learners construct new identities in the mediascapes of popular culture and cyberspace, where they not only consume, but also produce new, globalized identities. Through case studies, narrative analysis, and ethnography, the volume examines identity construction among learners of English, French, Japanese, and Swahili in Canada, England, France, Hong Kong, Tanzania, and the United States.

The first volume in applied linguistics to examine language learners' identity formation within the contexts of new millennium globalization
A rare look at identity spanning a diverse set of contexts and languages
Includes discussion of pedagogical activities that take into account learners' identities in the current era – a topic of great interest with respect to implications for pedagogical practice

Author / Editor information

Christina Higgins, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, USA.

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	I
Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	V
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	IX
Notes on contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XI
Chapter 1. The formation of L2 selves in a globalizing world Christina Higgins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Forming identities within (trans)national ethnoscapes
Introduction to Part I Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Chapter 2. “I’m two pieces inside of me”: Negotiating belonging through narratives of linguistic and ethnic hybridity Matthew T. Prior Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Chapter 3. Integration through the accueil program: Language and belonging among newcomer adolescents in Quebec Dawn Allen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Chapter 4. Performing “national” practices: Identity and hybridity in immigrant youths’ communication Jane Zuengler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
Chapter 5. L1 and L2 reading practices in the lives of Latina immigrant women studying English: School literacies, home literacies, and literacies that construct identities Julia Menard-Warwick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Part II. Identifying with third spaces among ideoscapes
Introduction to Part II Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Chapter 6. Mutuality, engagement, and agency: Negotiating identity on stays abroad Jane Jackson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Chapter 7. National identity and language learning abroad: American students in the post 9/11 era Celeste Kinginger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Chapter 8. “You’re a real a Swahili!”: Western women’s resistance to identity slippage in Tanzania Christina Higgins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Part III. Constructing identities in mediascapes
Introduction to Part III Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Chapter 9. Doing-hip-hop in the transformation of youth identities: Social class, habitus, and cultural capital Angel Lin and Evelyn Man Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Chapter 10. When life is off da hook: Hip-hop identity and identification, BESL, and the pedagogy of pleasure Awad Ibrahim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Chapter 11. Identity theft or revealing one’s true self ?: The media and construction of identity in Japanese as a foreign language Yumiko Ohara Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Chapter 12. Identity and interaction in internet-mediated contexts Steven L. Thorne and Rebecca Black Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Epilogue. Hybridizing scapes and the production of new identities Christina Higgins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Institutional Libraries, Students and Researchers in Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Identities, Language Learning and Teaching
Pages
- Front matter: 18
- Main content: 330
Illustrations
- Tables: 2
Keywords: Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Sociolinguistics

eBook

Published: October 28, 2011
ISBN: 9783110267280

Hardcover

Published: October 27, 2011
ISBN: 9783110266382