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Identity Trajectories of Adult Second Language Learners : Learning Italian in Australia / Cristiana Palmieri.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Second Language AcquisitionPublisher: Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781788922197
  • 9781788922203
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 458.0071/094 23
LOC classification:
  • PC1068.A8 P35 2019
  • PC1068.A8 P35 2019
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: Learning a Language as an Identity-Shaping Journey -- 2. L2 Learning Motivation, Identity and Community: Reshaping Social Identity through L2 Learning -- 3. Learning Italian Outside Italy: Culture, Lifestyle and Italophilia -- 4. Learning Italian in Australia: Theoretical Framework and Research Method -- 5. The Ideal L2 Self and Italian Learning Motivation: A Quantitative Investigation -- 6. Community and Identity: A Qualitative Exploration of Drivers for Learning Italian -- 7. Italian Learning in Australia: Under the Spell of a Cultural Icon -- Appendix A: Questionnaire -- References -- Index
Summary: This book explores the motivations of adult second language (L2) learners to learn Italian in continuing education settings in Australia. It focuses on their motivational drives, learning trajectories and related dynamics of identity development triggered by the learning process. Central to the study are adult L2 learners, who are still a largely under-researched and growing group of learners, and readers will gain a better understanding of the learning process of this specific group of learners and ideas for sustaining L2 adult learning motivation in continuing education settings. Furthermore, the book discusses the role played by the Italian migrant community in Australia in making Italian a sought-after language to learn. It explores how a migrant community may influence motivation, and highlights and expands on the notion of L2 learning contexts, showing the existence of sociocultural environments where second language learning trajectories are affected by the presence of migrant groups.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: Learning a Language as an Identity-Shaping Journey -- 2. L2 Learning Motivation, Identity and Community: Reshaping Social Identity through L2 Learning -- 3. Learning Italian Outside Italy: Culture, Lifestyle and Italophilia -- 4. Learning Italian in Australia: Theoretical Framework and Research Method -- 5. The Ideal L2 Self and Italian Learning Motivation: A Quantitative Investigation -- 6. Community and Identity: A Qualitative Exploration of Drivers for Learning Italian -- 7. Italian Learning in Australia: Under the Spell of a Cultural Icon -- Appendix A: Questionnaire -- References -- Index

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This book explores the motivations of adult second language (L2) learners to learn Italian in continuing education settings in Australia. It focuses on their motivational drives, learning trajectories and related dynamics of identity development triggered by the learning process. Central to the study are adult L2 learners, who are still a largely under-researched and growing group of learners, and readers will gain a better understanding of the learning process of this specific group of learners and ideas for sustaining L2 adult learning motivation in continuing education settings. Furthermore, the book discusses the role played by the Italian migrant community in Australia in making Italian a sought-after language to learn. It explores how a migrant community may influence motivation, and highlights and expands on the notion of L2 learning contexts, showing the existence of sociocultural environments where second language learning trajectories are affected by the presence of migrant groups.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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