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Title
The power of identity and ideology in language learning : designer immigrants learning English in Singapore / Peter I. De Costa.
ISBN
9783319302119 (electronic book)
3319302116 (electronic book)
9783319302096
3319302094
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2016]
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvii, 174 pages)
Call Number
PE1128.A2 D43 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
428.0071/2
Summary
This critical ethnographic school-based case study offers insights on the interaction between ideology and the identity development of individual English language learners in Singapore. Illustrated by case studies of the language learning experiences of five Asian immigrant students in an English-medium school in Singapore, the author examines how the immigrant students negotiated a standard English ideology and their discursive positioning over the course of the school year. Specifically, the study traces how the prevailing standard English ideology interacted in highly complex ways with their being positioned as high academic achievers to ultimately influence their learning of English. This potent combination of language ideologies and circulating ideologies created a designer student immigration complex. By framing this situation as a complex, the study problematizes the power of ideologies in shaping the trajectories and identities of language learners.
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Series
Multilingual education ; v. 18.
Chapter 1: Foreign talent and Singapore
Chapter 2: Reconceptualizing language, language learning, and the language learner in the age of globalization
Chapter 3: Researching, analyzing, and constructing the data
Chapter 4: The sociolinguistic context of Singapore and Oak
Chapter 5: Designer student immigration and the designer student immigrant complex at Oak
Chapter 6: Language ideologies at Oak
Chapter 7 The designer student immigrant complex: Its impact on learning
Chapter 8: Looking back and moving forward
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