Identity formation in globalizing contexts : language learning in the new millennium / edited by Christina Higgins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Higgins, Christina.

Series:

Language & social processes ; 1.

Language and social processes ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Study and teaching.

Language and languages.

Second language acquisition.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (348 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Notes on contributors

Chapter 1. The formation of L2 selves in a globalizing world / Higgins, Christina

Part I. Forming identities within (trans)national ethnoscapes

Introduction to Part I

Chapter 2. "I'm two pieces inside of me": Negotiating belonging through narratives of linguistic and ethnic hybridity / Prior, Matthew T.

Chapter 3. Integration through the accueil program: Language and belonging among newcomer adolescents in Quebec / Allen, Dawn

Chapter 4. Performing "national" practices: Identity and hybridity in immigrant youths' communication / Zuengler, Jane

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 / Menard-Warwick, Julia

Part II. Identifying with third spaces among ideoscapes

Introduction to Part II

Chapter 6. Mutuality, engagement, and agency: Negotiating identity on stays abroad / Jackson, Jane

Chapter 7. National identity and language learning abroad: American students in the post 9/11 era / Kinginger, Celeste

Chapter 8. "You're a real a Swahili!": Western women's resistance to identity slippage in Tanzania / Higgins, Christina

Part III. Constructing identities in mediascapes

Introduction to Part III

Chapter 9. Doing-hip-hop in the transformation of youth identities: Social class, habitus, and cultural capital / Lin, Angel / Man, Evelyn

Chapter 10. When life is off da hook: Hip-hop identity and identification, BESL, and the pedagogy of pleasure / Ibrahim, Awad

Chapter 11. Identity theft or revealing one's true self ?: The media and construction of identity in Japanese as a foreign language / Ohara, Yumiko

Chapter 12. Identity and interaction in internet-mediated contexts / Thorne, Steven L. / Black, Rebecca

Epilogue. Hybridizing scapes and the production of new identities / Higgins, Christina

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613430588

9781283430586

1283430584

9783110267280

3110267284

OCLC:

768474070