34.181, Books: Motivation to Learn Multiple Languages in Japan: Takahashi

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Subject: 34.181, Books: Motivation to Learn Multiple Languages in Japan: Takahashi

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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 19:49:21
From: Flo McClelland [flo at multilingual-matters.com]
Subject: Motivation to Learn Multiple Languages in Japan: Takahashi

 


Title: Motivation to Learn Multiple Languages in Japan 
Subtitle: A Longitudinal Perspective 
Series Title: Psychology of Language Learning and Teaching  

Publication Year: 2023 
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
	   http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
	

Book URL: https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/?K=9781800414839 


Author: Chika Takahashi

Hardback: ISBN:  9781800414839 Pages: 216 Price: U.S. $ 129.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9781800414839 Pages: 216 Price: U.K. £ 89.95


Abstract:

This book provides rare insights into motivation among extremely successful
learners of English and languages other than English (LOTEs) through the
analysis of a longitudinal study and the examination of the factors involved
in becoming multilingual in a non-multilingual environment. Based on sixteen
interview sessions, conducted over the course of nine years while the learners
progressed from high school to the world of work, this book offers the story
of how two learners persist in English/LOTE learning. The study illuminates
the long-term processes through which the interviewees develop ideal
English/LOTE selves in an environment where multilingualism is not emphasized
and where both English and LOTEs can still be described as foreign languages.
Educators and researchers will learn from this study, which stretches our
understanding of motivation beyond the recent theorizing of L2 motivation and
contributes to the limited research in long-term motivational trajectories and
LOTE learning motivation, which is particularly scarce in non-European
contexts. The book will be of interest not only to readers in Japan but also
to those in other contexts as it offers an example of successful learners who
go beyond the pragmatic and instrumentalist view of language learning to hold
a more holistic view, thus revealing the factors which can sustain multiple
language learning, even in foreign language contexts.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition


Written In: English  (eng)

See this book announcement on our website: 
http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=167313




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