30.342, Books: Identity Trajectories of Adult Second Language Learners: Palmieri

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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 10:27:42
From: Flo McClelland [flo at multilingual-matters.com]
Subject: Identity Trajectories of Adult Second Language Learners: Palmieri

 


Title: Identity Trajectories of Adult Second Language Learners 
Subtitle: Learning Italian in Australia 
Series Title: Second Language Acquisition  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
	   http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
	

Book URL: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781788922197 


Author: Cristiana Palmieri

Hardback: ISBN:  9781788922197 Pages: 192 Price: U.S. $ 139.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9781788922197 Pages: 192 Price: U.K. £ 99.95


Abstract:

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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