Cross-Cultural Identity Re/Construction: Learning and Writing in an Additional Language - Couverture souple

Li, Xuemei

 
9783843361200: Cross-Cultural Identity Re/Construction: Learning and Writing in an Additional Language
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3843361207 ISBN 13 : 9783843361200
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

This book explores the identity reconstruction of graduate students in additional language (AL) contexts. It addresses not only the issue of language proficiency in self-representation, but also more complicated factors that influence self-positioning and perceived social positioning in an additional culture, as well as ways of establishing the self in academic writing. The research on which the book is based is grounded in language learning theories in second language education and identity theories in linguistics, sociology, and cultural studies. The author elaborates on the connections of personal identity and writer identity, and conceptualizes for AL speakers a mediated space that incorporates home culture and host culture but goes beyond the overlap of the two, as well as a mediated self that is achieved through negotiation with the available options in their respective social context. Such conceptualization sheds light on the understanding of identity issues among cross-cultural individuals. Professionals and students who are interested in this body of research should find the book useful.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book explores the identity reconstruction of graduate students in additional language (AL) contexts. It addresses not only the issue of language proficiency in self-representation, but also more complicated factors that influence self-positioning and perceived social positioning in an additional culture, as well as ways of establishing the self in academic writing. The research on which the book is based is grounded in language learning theories in second language education and identity theories in linguistics, sociology, and cultural studies. The author elaborates on the connections of personal identity and writer identity, and conceptualizes for AL speakers a mediated space that incorporates home culture and host culture but goes beyond the overlap of the two, as well as a mediated self that is achieved through negotiation with the available options in their respective social context. Such conceptualization sheds light on the understanding of identity issues among cross-cultural individuals. Professionals and students who are interested in this body of research should find the book useful.

Biographie de l'auteur

Xuemei Li is Assistant Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. She specializes in the areas of teaching English as an additional language and cross-cultural identity construction. Her publications cover topics on beliefs in ESL/EAL contexts, identities in additional language writing, and creation of classroom interculture.

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3843361207
ISBN 13 
9783843361200
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
220
Coordonnées du fabricant
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