Discourses, Identities and Investment in Foreign Language Learning

✍ Scribed by Jennifer Martyn

Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Year: 2022
Tongue: English
Leaves: 174
Series: Second Language Acquisition; 154
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book explores the relationship between gendered practices and discourses in foreign language education in Ireland. It adopts a critical approach to SLA, examining the complex interplay between the construction of identity in the school context, discourses of language learning and investment in language learning.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
Transcription Conventions
Introduction
1 Language Education in Ireland: Sociolinguistic and Scholarly Contexts
2 Language Learning and Identity, Ideology and Elite Multilingualism
3 Gender and Language Education: Theoretical Approaches and Current Trends
4 Fieldwork in SMSS: Community, Space and Identity
5 Language Choice, Discourse and Investment
6 Addressing the Issues and Moving Forward
References
Index

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