Emerging Self-Identities and Emotion in Foreign Language Learning: A Narrative-Oriented Approach

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Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 212
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book uses a narrative-oriented approach to shed light on the processes of identity construction among Japanese university students of English. It offers a unique perspective on the role of experience, emotions, social and environmental affordances in shaping their personal orientations to English and self-perceptions as English learner-users.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
Overview of the Research
Researcher’s Background
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical Frameworks
3. Narrative Approach: Identity Studies and Emotions
4. The Research Design
5. Sayaka’s and Maki’s Stories: Authenticate and Strengthen L2 Possible Selves
6. Megumi’s and Yui’s Stories: Desire to Create and Develop L2 Possible Selves
7. Hinako’s and Takehiro’s Stories: Ambivalent Desire to Create L2 Possible Selves
8. An Attempt to Weave the Threads Together
9. Conclusion and Afterword
References
Index

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