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Author:   Damian J. Rivers ,  Stephanie Ann Houghton
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.367kg
ISBN:  

9781474218870

ISBN 10:   1474218873
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   29 January 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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 Aguilar 2. 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. McMillan 4. 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 Meadows 7. The L2 Imagined Learning Community: Developing Identity and Increasing Foreign Language Investment, John W. Schwieter 8. Foreign Language Motivation and Social Identity Development, Lou Harvey 9. Emotive Accounts of the Self During an Erasmus Sojourn Abroad, Sonia Gallucci 10. Setting Standards for Intercultural Communication: Universalism and Identity Change, Stephanie Ann Houghton References Index

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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. -- Kanavillil Rajagopalan, Professor of Linguistics, State University at Campinas, Brazil This volume challenges a number of key assumptions made in the field of applied linguistics and pushes the boundaries of research on identity in the context of foreign language learning and teaching. -- Ahmer Mahboob, Senior Lecturer of Linguistics, The University of Sydney, Australia

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. -- Kanavillil Rajagopalan, Professor of Linguistics, State University at Campinas, Brazil This volume challenges a number of key assumptions made in the field of applied linguistics and pushes the boundaries of research on identity in the context of foreign language learning and teaching. -- Ahmer Mahboob, Senior Lecturer of Linguistics, The University of Sydney, Australia The major strength of this book is that it brings together research conducted in several different countries, which allows readers to explore additional language identity development in a variety of different settings; this is invaluable because, as Kunschak and Gir n exemplify in chapter 4, this process can proceed differently for language learners from different cultures, educational contexts and so on. Though the title of the book may be misleading, the content is not limited to research on foreign language education and includes research on second language settings as well . To sum up, this is a valuable volume for both identity researchers and additional language teaching practitioners. -- Ksenia Gnevsheva, University of Canterbury, UK LINGUIST 23:31

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. -- Kanavillil Rajagopalan, Professor of Linguistics, State University at Campinas, Brazil This volume challenges a number of key assumptions made in the field of applied linguistics and pushes the boundaries of research on identity in the context of foreign language learning and teaching. -- Ahmer Mahboob, Senior Lecturer of Linguistics, The University of Sydney, Australia The major strength of this book is that it brings together research conducted in several different countries, which allows readers to explore additional language identity development in a variety of different settings; this is invaluable because, as Kunschak and Giron exemplify in chapter 4, this process can proceed differently for language learners from different cultures, educational contexts and so on. Though the title of the book may be misleading, the content is not limited to research on foreign language education and includes research on second language settings as well ... To sum up, this is a valuable volume for both identity researchers and additional language teaching practitioners. -- Ksenia Gnevsheva, University of Canterbury, UK LINGUIST 23:31

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Damian J. Rivers is an Associate Professor at Osaka University, Japan Stephanie Ann Houghton is an Associate Professor at Saga University, Japan

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