Discourses, Identities and Investment in Foreign Language Learning

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-80041-564-5
Verlag: Multilingual Matters

Buch, Englisch, 164 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 435 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Martyn, Jennifer

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Transcription Conventions

Introduction

Chapter 1: Language Education in Ireland: Sociolinguistic and Scholarly Contexts

Chapter 2: Language Learning and Identity, Ideology and Elite Multilingualism

Chapter 3: Gender and Language Education: Theoretical Approaches and Current Trends

Chapter 4: Fieldwork in SMSS: Community, Space and Identity

Chapter 5: Language Choice, Discourse and Investment

Chapter 6: Addressing the Issues and Moving Forward

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Martyn, Jennifer
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.