Second Language Identities

Second Language Identities

by David Block
Second Language Identities

Second Language Identities

by David Block

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Overview

Second Language Identities examines how identity is an issue in different second language learning contexts. It begins with a detailed presentation of what has become a popular approach to identity in the social sciences (including applied linguistics) today, one that is inspired in poststructuralist thought and is associated with the work of authors such as Anthony Giddens, Zygmunt Bauman, Chris Weedon, Judith Butler and Stuart Hall.

It then examines how in early SLA research focussing on affective variables, identity was an issue, lurking in the wings but not coming to centre stage. Moving to the present, the book then examines in detail and critiques recent research focussing on identity in three distinct second language learning contexts. These contexts are: (1) adult migration, (2) foreign language classrooms and (3) study abroad programmes. The book concludes with suggestions for future research focussing on identity in second language learning.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781472571038
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 09/11/2014
Series: Bloomsbury Classics in Linguistics
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 240
File size: 568 KB

About the Author

David Block is ICREA Research Professor in Sociolinguistics at the University of Lleida, Spain
David Block is ICREA Research Professor in Sociolinguistics at the University of Lleida, Spain.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Identity in the social sciences today
2. Waking the dead: Identity in early second language learning research
3. Identity in adult migrant contexts
4. Identity in foreign language contexts
5. Identity in study abroad contexts
6. Second language identities: the state of play and future directions.
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