Identity Formation in Globalizing Contexts

The volume explores how new millennium globalization mediates language learning and identity construction. It seeks to theorize how global flows are creating new identity options for language learners, and to consider the implications for language learning, teaching and use. To frame the chapters theoretically, the volume asserts that new identities are developing because of the increasingly interconnected set of global scapes which impact language learners' lives. Part 1 focuses on language learners in (trans)national contexts, exploring their identity formation when they shuttle between cultures and when they create new communities of fellow transnationals. Part 2 examines how learners come to develop intercultural selves as a consequence of experiencing global contact zones when they sojourn to new contexts for study and work. Part 3 investigates how learners construct new identities in the mediascapes of popular culture and cyberspace, where they not only consume, but also produce new, globalized identities. Through case studies, narrative analysis, and ethnography, the volume examines identity construction among learners of English, French, Japanese, and Swahili in Canada, England, France, Hong Kong, Tanzania, and the United States.

1;Preface;9 2;Notes on contributors;11 3;Chapter 1. The formation of L2 selves in a globalizing world;19 4;Part I. Forming. identities within (trans)national ethnoscapes;37 4.1;Introduction to Part I;39 4.2;Chapter 2. Im two pieces inside of me: Negotiating belonging through narratives of linguistic and ethnic hybridity;45 4.3;Chapter 3. Integration through the accueil program: Language and belonging among newcomer adolescents in Quebec;67 4.4;Chapter 4. Performing national practices: Identity and hybridity in immigrant youths communication;91 4.5;Chapter 5. L1 and L2 reading practices in the lives of Latina immigrant women studying English: School literacies, home literacies, and literacies that construct identities;117 5;Part II. Identifying with third spaces among ideoscapes;137 5.1;Introduction to Part II;139 5.2;Chapter 6. Mutuality, engagement, and agency: Negotiating identity on stays abroad;145 5.3;Chapter 7. National identity and language learning abroad: American students in the post 9/11 era;165 5.4;Chapter 8. Youre a real Swahili!: Western womens resistance to identity slippage in Tanzania;185 6;Part III. Constructing identities in mediascapes;211 6.1;Introduction to Part III;213 6.2;Chapter 9. Doing-Hip-Hop in the transformation of youth identities: Social class, habitus, and cultural capital;219 6.3;Chapter 10. When life is off da hook: Hip-hop identity and identification, BESL, and the pedagogy of pleasure;239 6.4;Chapter 11. Identity theft or revealing ones true self?: The media and construction of identity in Japanese as a foreign language;257 6.5;Chapter 12. Identity and interaction in internet-mediated contexts;275 6.6;Epilogue. Hybridizing scapes and the production of new identities;297 7;References;303 8;Index;347