TY  - BOOK
AU  - Muramatsu,Chie
TI  - Portraits of Second Language Learners: An L2 Learner Agency Perspective 
T2  - Second Language Acquisition
SN  - 9781783099870
AV  - P115.2 .M87 2018
U1  - 404/.2083 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Bristol, Blue Ridge Summit
PB  - Multilingual Matters
KW  - Multilingual education
KW  - Second language acquisition
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Psycholinguistics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Community of practice
KW  - Ethnographic studies
KW  - L2 Japanese learning
KW  - L2 learner agency
KW  - L2 learner variability
KW  - L2 learners of Japanese
KW  - L2 socialization theory
KW  - L2 socialization
KW  - Middlebury Language Schools
KW  - Norton’s (2000) notion of investment
KW  - Second language socialization
KW  - language learner agency
KW  - language learner trajectories
KW  - narrative inquiry
KW  - stories of L2 learners
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Transcription Conventions --; 1. Introduction --; 2. Second Language Socialization, Community and Second Language Learner Agency --; 3. Community --; 4. Parker: Lost Opportunities, Reconnection and Transforming --; 5. Alison: Shame, Resistance and Overcoming --; 6. Naiya: Separation, Resistance and Accomplishing --; 7. Danielle: Identities, Ambivalence and Becoming --; 8. Conclusion --; References --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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 (2000) 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783099887
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781783099887
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781783099887/original
ER  -