Description: Portraits of Second Language LearnersAn L2 Learner Agency Perspective Author(s): Chie Muramatsu Format: Hardback Publisher: Channel View Publications Ltd, United Kingdom Imprint: Multilingual Matters ISBN-13: 9781783099870, 978-1783099870 Synopsis Using second language (L2) socialization theory as a theoretical framework, this book investigates the ways in which four advanced learners of Japanese on an immersion program in the USA exercise their agency to pursue their language learning goals. The work presents their learner portraits and documents the different ways in which the four learners negotiate the meaning of their participations in the new community of practice, navigate and shape the trajectories of their learning and eventually achieve their goals of learning from their emic perspectives. The book re-examines Norton's [tel] constructs of investment, investigates its applicability and argues that L2 learners' desires and drives for learning an L2 are more diverse, unique and contextually situated than Norton's notion of investment alone can explain. The research will be of interest to researchers and students in the fields of applied linguistics, second language acquisition, foreign language education and language and literacy education.
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Book Title: Portraits of Second Language Learners
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Portraits of Second Language Learners: an L2 Learner Agency Perspective
Publisher: Channel View Publications LTD
Publication Year: 2018
Item Height: 234 mm
Item Weight: 505 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Chie Muramatsu
Subject Area: Personality Psychology
Series: Second Language Acquisition
Item Width: 156 mm
Format: Hardcover
