Identity Trajectories of Adult Second Language Learners (eBook)
192 Seiten
Channel View Publications (Verlag)
978-1-78892-221-0 (ISBN)
This book explores the motivations of adult second language learners in continuing education settings. It focuses on their learning trajectories and related dynamics of identity development and will be useful to language teachers and researchers interested in the role of affective elements in successful adult language learning.
This book explores the motivations of adult second language (L2) learners to learn Italian in continuing education settings in Australia. It focuses on their motivational drives, learning trajectories and related dynamics of identity development triggered by the learning process. Central to the study are adult L2 learners, who are still a largely under-researched and growing group of learners, and readers will gain a better understanding of the learning process of this specific group of learners and ideas for sustaining L2 adult learning motivation in continuing education settings. Furthermore, the book discusses the role played by the Italian migrant community in Australia in making Italian a sought-after language to learn. It explores how a migrant community may influence motivation, and highlights and expands on the notion of L2 learning contexts, showing the existence of sociocultural environments where second language learning trajectories are affected by the presence of migrant groups.
lt;p>Cristiana Palmieri is a research affiliate within the Department of Italian Studies, School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research interests lie in adult education, lifelong learning and sociolinguistics, with a focus on adult second language learning motivation and identity.
Chapter 1. Introduction: Learning a Language as an Identity Shaping Journey
Chapter 2. L2 Learning Motivation, Identity and Community: Reshaping Social Identity through L2 Learning
Chapter 3. Learning Italian outside Italy: Culture, Lifestyle and Italophilia
Chapter 4. Learning Italian in Australia: Theoretical Framework and Research Method
Chapter 5. The Ideal L2 Self and Italian Learning Motivation: A Quantitative Investigation
Chapter 6. Community and Identity: A Qualitative Exploration of Drivers for Learning Italian
Chapter 7. Italian Learning in Australia: Under the Spell of a Cultural Icon
Reference List
Appendix A - Questionnaire
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 7.12.2018 |
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Reihe/Serie | Second Language Acquisition |
Verlagsort | Bristol |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
Schlagworte | Adult language learning • Belonging/Community • continuing education • Ideal L2 self • Italian • L2 learning motivation • L2 Self • Language and Identity • language education • learning italian • Motivation • Second Language acquisition • SLA • Sociolinguistics • teaching languages to adults |
ISBN-10 | 1-78892-221-2 / 1788922212 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-78892-221-0 / 9781788922210 |
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