30.2402, Books: Portraits of Second Language Learners: Muramatsu

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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 00:01:56
From: Elinor Robertson [Elinor at Multilingual-Matters.com]
Subject: Portraits of Second Language Learners: Muramatsu

 


Title: Portraits of Second Language Learners 
Subtitle: An L2 Learner Agency Perspective 
Series Title: Second Language Acquisition  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
	   http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
	

Book URL: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781788923798 


Author: Chie Muramatsu

Paperback: ISBN:  9781788923798 Pages: 240 Price: U.S. $ 49.95
Paperback: ISBN:  9781788923798 Pages: 240 Price: U.K. £ 34.95


Abstract:

Using second language (L2) socialization theory as a theoretical framework,
this book investigates the ways in which four advanced learners of Japanese on
an immersion program in the USA exercise their agency to pursue their language
learning goals. The work presents their learner portraits and documents the
different ways in which the four learners negotiate the meaning of their
participations in the new community of practice, navigate and shape the
trajectories of their learning and eventually achieve their goals of learning
from their emic perspectives. The book re-examines Norton’s (2000) constructs
of investment, investigates its applicability and argues that L2 learners’
desires and drives for learning an L2 are more diverse, unique and
contextually situated than Norton’s notion of investment alone can explain.
The research will be of interest to researchers and students in the fields of
applied linguistics, second language acquisition, foreign language education
and language and literacy education.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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