36.2753, Books: Constructing, Reconstructing and Reclaiming Learner Identities: Motohashi (2025)

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Date: 15-Sep-2025
From: Flo McClelland [flo at multilingual-matters.com]
Subject: Constructing, Reconstructing and Reclaiming Learner Identities: Motohashi (2025)


Title: Constructing, Reconstructing and Reclaiming Learner Identities
Subtitle: Academically Successful 1.5 Generation Filipino Students in
Japan
Series Title: New Perspectives on Language and Education
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Multilingual Matters
           http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
Book URL:
https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/?K=9781800415430

Author(s): Ellen Preston Motohashi

Hbk ISBN 9781800415430 £109.95 / US$139.95 / €129.95
PDF ISBN 9781800415447 £20.00 / US$25.00 / €23.00
EPUB ISBN 9781800415454 £20.00 / US$25.00 / €23.00

Abstract:

This book focuses on the experiences of 1.5 generation Filipinos in
Japan, charting their life histories and educational experiences in
both the Philippines and Japan. Against a background of transnational
migrations between both countries, and varying levels of Japanese as a
Second Language and educational support for immigrant/non-Japanese
speaking children in Japanese schools, the author uses a narrative,
life history approach to consider how the participants use their
educational histories and learner identities as intangible resources
upon which they drew to overcome the structural and cultural
differences in the teaching–learning environments they encountered in
Japanese schools. The book ends by recounting the participants’
regained sense of confidence as learners upon entering university,
where they reclaim their learner identities as active participants in
the classroom, with several receiving awards for academic excellence.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics




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