Self and Identity in Adolescent Foreign Language Learning

✍ Scribed by Florentina Taylor

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 206
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book explores the role of identity in adolescent foreign language learning. It presents both qualitative and quantitative research, as well as a new model of identity, to support the claim that discrepancy in the display of the self can affect achievement in education.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Tables and Figures
1. Introduction
2. Self and Identity in Adolescence: A Relational Perspective
3. Self and Identity in Foreign Language Learning
4. A Quadripolar Model of Identity in Adolescent Foreign Language Learning
5. Participants’ Self Systems in Four Relational Contexts
6. Self Perceptions and Identity Display in Learning English as a Foreign Language
7. Of Students and Teachers
8. Drawing the Line: Evaluation and Implications
Appendix A: The L2 Quadripolar Identity Questionnaire
Appendix B: The L2 Quadripolar Identity Questionnaire with Item Numbers
Appendix C: Questionnaire Scales with Item Numbers
Appendix D: Interview guide – Themes Covered, with Examples of Questions and Prompts
Appendix E: Self System Graphical Representations and Vignettes
Appendix F: Interviewee Profiles
Glossary
References
Subject Index
Author Index
Country Index