Discourses, Identities and Investment in Foreign Language Learning

By: Jennifer Martyn

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Hardcover | 11 July 2022

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176 Pages

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This book explores discourses of foreign language education in Ireland through an ethnographic lens. Taking a critical approach to SLA, it locates students' language ideologies within wider discourses of language learning, such as discourses of gender and language learning and discourses of elite multilingualism. It also examines the role of the imagined identity in language learning investment in a world where English and a limited number of other 'global' languages dominate the foreign language learning experience. The ethnographic approach provides a unique insight into the way in which dominant discourses of identity, gender, and foreign language learning are both constructed and resisted in the institutional context, shaping our understanding of what it means to be a gendered being and what it means to be a language learner in a globalised world. This book will be of interest to postgraduate students and researchers in the fields of SLA and sociolinguistics, as well as language teachers and language policymakers.

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Jennifer Martyn's book offers a valuable insight into the reality of bi- and multilingualism in a predominantly anglophone country. The Irish experience is deftly extrapolated and used as a starting point for an in-depth reflection on discourses around investment in foreign language learning. Indeed, the author's discussion of identities, power relations, and commodification of language and education is relevant to anyone involved in promoting and supporting multi- and plurilingualism.

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