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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.
Community of practice. --- Ethnographic studies. --- L2 Japanese learning. --- L2 learner agency. --- L2 learner variability. --- L2 learners of Japanese. --- L2 socialization theory. --- L2 socialization. --- Middlebury Language Schools. --- Norton’s (2000) notion of investment. --- Second language socialization. --- language learner agency. --- language learner trajectories. --- narrative inquiry. --- stories of L2 learners. --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Psycholinguistics.
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This book showcases how language learner agency can be understood and researched from varying perspectives by providing, for the first time, a collection of diverse approaches in one volume. The volume is organised into three main sections:the first sections offers an introduction to varying theoretical approaches to agency; the second section presents analyses of agency in a variety of empirical studies; and the third section focuses on the pedagogical implications of data-based studies of agency. The volume includes the work of researchers working in languages including English (ESL and EFL), Greek, Spanish, Swedish, Italian, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati and Truku (an indigenous language in Taiwan) and with both child and adult language learners. This collection will serve as a key reference for researchers of language learning and teaching, sociolinguistics and language and identity.
Second language acquisition --- Language and languages --- Interdisciplinary approach in education. --- Integrated curriculum --- Interdisciplinarity in education --- Interdisciplinary studies --- Curriculum planning --- Holistic education --- Foreign language study --- Language and education --- Language schools --- Second language learning --- Language acquisition --- Study and teaching. --- Methodology. --- Language and languages Study and teaching --- Study and teaching --- Second language acquisition Study and teaching --- Agency in Learning L2. --- Agency in Second Language Learning. --- SLA. --- Second Language Acquisition. --- foreign language learning. --- language learner agency. --- language learners. --- language teachers. --- learner agency. --- second language learning. --- second language teaching.
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