Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, and Gender

✍ Scribed by Aneta Pavlenko (editor); Adrian Blackledge (editor); Ingrid Piller (editor); Marya Teutsch-Dwyer (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 368
• Series: Language, Power and Social Process [LPSP]; 6
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume presents a comprehensive introduction to the study of second language learning, multilingualism and gender. An impressive array of papers situated within a feminist poststructuralist framework demonstrates how this framework allows for a deeper understanding of second language learning, a number of language contact phenomena, intercultural communication, and critical language pedagogy. The volume has wide appeal to students and scholars in the fields of language and gender, sociolinguistics, SLA, anthropology, and language education.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Contributors
Introduction: Multilingualism, second language learning, and gender
1. Gender, society, and ideology in multilingual settings
New directions in the study of multilingualism, second language learning, and gender
Complex positionings: Women negotiating identity and power in a minority urban setting
Researching women’s language practices in multilingual workplaces
Gendering the ‘learner’: Sexual harassment and second language acquisition
2. Negotiation and performance of gender in multilingual contexts
“How am I to become a woman in an American vein?”: Transformations of gender performance in second language learning
(Re)constructing masculinity in a new linguistic reality
Linguistic intermarriage: Language choice and negotiation of identity
Finding one’s voice in Japanese: A study of the pitch levels of L2 users
3. Gender in multilingual educational settings
Gender and public space in a bilingual school
Cross-cultural excursions: Foreign language study and feminist discourses of travel
Self-expression, gender, and community: A Japanese feminist English class
Name index
Subject index