Multilingual Identities in a Global City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Multilingual Identities in a Global City write by D. Block. This book was released on 2005-11-22. Multilingual Identities in a Global City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Opening with a discussion of the key issues of globalization, migration, multiculturalism, multilingualism and global cities, David Block then turns to four detailed case studies: East Asian students living and working in London; foreign language teachers from France; London's growing Latino community; and second generation South Asian university students. Via these case studies the book explores the ambivalent and multi-layered identities of individuals who have crossed geographical and psychological borders during the course of their lifetimes and settled in London, the quintessential global city.
Motivation, Language Identity and the L2 Self
Motivation, Language Identity and the L2 Self - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Motivation, Language Identity and the L2 Self write by Zoltán Dörnyei. This book was released on 2009-01-12. Motivation, Language Identity and the L2 Self available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Due to its theoretical and educational significance within the language learning process, the study of L2 motivation has been an important area of second language acquisition research for several decades. Over the last few years L2 motivation research has taken an exciting new turn by focusing increasingly on the language learner’s situated identity and various self-perceptions. As a result, the concept of L2 motivation is currently in the process of being radically reconceptualised and re-theorised in the context of contemporary notions of self and identity. With contributions by leading European, North American and Asian scholars, this volume brings together the first comprehensive anthology of key conceptual and empirical papers that mark this important paradigmatic shift.
The Routledge Handbook of Spanish in the Global City
The Routledge Handbook of Spanish in the Global City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Routledge Handbook of Spanish in the Global City write by Andrew Lynch. This book was released on 2019-07-11. The Routledge Handbook of Spanish in the Global City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Routledge Handbook of Spanish in the Global City brings together contributions from an international team of scholars of language in society to offer a conceptual and empirical perspective on Spanish within the context of 15 major cosmopolitan cities from around the world. With a unique focus on Spanish as an international language, each chapter questions the traditional and modern notions of language, place, and identity in the urban context of globalization. This collection of new perspectives on the sociology of Spanish provides an insightful and invaluable resource for students and researchers seeking to explore lesser-known areas of sociolinguistic research.
Multilingual Global Cities
Multilingual Global Cities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Multilingual Global Cities write by Peter Siemund. This book was released on 2020-11-29. Multilingual Global Cities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume sets out to investigate the linguistic ecologies of Singapore, Hong Kong, and Dubai, with chapters that combine empirical and theoretical approaches to the sociolinguistics of multilingualism. One important feature of this publication is that the five parts of the collection deal with such key issues as the historical dimension, language policies and language planning, contemporary societal multilingualism, multilingual language acquisition, and the localized Englishes of global cities. The first four sections of the volume provide a multi-levelled and finely-detailed description of multilingual diversity of three global cities, while the final section discusses postcolonial Englishes in the context of multilingual language acquisition and language contact.
Second Language Identities
Second Language Identities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Second Language Identities write by David Block. This book was released on 2014-09-11. Second Language Identities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Second Language Identities examines how identity is an issue in different second language learning contexts. It begins with a detailed presentation of what has become a popular approach to identity in the social sciences (including applied linguistics) today, one that is inspired in poststructuralist thought and is associated with the work of authors such as Anthony Giddens, Zygmunt Bauman, Chris Weedon, Judith Butler and Stuart Hall. It then examines how in early SLA research focussing on affective variables, identity was an issue, lurking in the wings but not coming to centre stage. Moving to the present, the book then examines in detail and critiques recent research focussing on identity in three distinct second language learning contexts. These contexts are: (1) adult migration, (2) foreign language classrooms and (3) study abroad programmes. The book concludes with suggestions for future research focussing on identity in second language learning.
