Palmieri Identity Trajectories of Adult Second Language Learners

Learning Italian in Australia
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78892-221-0
Verlag: Multilingual Matters
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 128, 192 Seiten

Reihe: Second Language Acquisition

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Palmieri, Cristiana

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Spracherwerb, Sprachentwicklung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction: Learning a Language as an Identity Shaping Journey

Chapter 2. L2 Learning Motivation, Identity and Community: Reshaping Social Identity through L2 Learning

Chapter 3. Learning Italian outside Italy: Culture, Lifestyle and Italophilia

Chapter 4. Learning Italian in Australia: Theoretical Framework and Research Method

Chapter 5. The Ideal L2 Self and Italian Learning Motivation: A Quantitative Investigation

Chapter 6. Community and Identity: A Qualitative Exploration of Drivers for Learning Italian

Chapter 7. Italian Learning in Australia: Under the Spell of a Cultural Icon

Reference List

Appendix A - Questionnaire

Über Autor(innen)

Palmieri, Cristiana
Cristiana Palmieri is a research affiliate within the Department of Italian Studies, School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research interests lie in adult education, lifelong learning and sociolinguistics, with a focus on adult second language learning motivation and identity.