Multilingual Selves and Motivations for Learning Languages other than English in Asian Contexts

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Title: Multilingual Selves and Motivations for Learning Languages other than English in Asian Contexts

Contains: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Language Learning Motivation and the Multilingual Turn -- 3 Negotiating Agentive Selves in Arabic Learning: A Case Study of Arabic Learners at a Chinese University -- 4 The Construction of Ought-To Multilingual Selves and their Roles in Shaping Chinese Language Learners’ LOTE Motivation -- 5 Japanese Learners’ LOTE Motivation and Persistence in Learning: Focusing on the Influence of English -- 6 Exploring International Students’ Experiences of Learning Japanese in Japan through Multimodal Language Learning Histories -- 7 Identity, Investment and Language Learning Strategies: Voices of Undergraduate Students Learning Korean in Kazakhstan -- 8 Indonesian Students’ Mental Images of Portugal and their L2 Motivation -- 9 Multilingual Language Profiles, Perceptions and Motivations within the Context of Majoring in a Foreign Language in Malaysia -- 10 Understanding Pakistani University Students’ Motivations for Learning Chinese in Pakistan: A Bourdieusian Perspective -- 11 Understanding Challenges, Strategy Use and the Ideal Multilingual Self of Internally Displaced Syrians on the Syria–Turkey Border -- 12 L2 Selves as a Source of Emotional Discomfort: A Self-Discrepancy Perspective -- 13 Current Understandings and Future Directions in L2 Motivation Research -- Index

Contributor: An, Ning [Contributor]; Channa, Liaquat Ali [Contributor]; Gao, Xuesong [Contributor]; Hajar, Anas [Contributor]; Hajar, Anas [Editor]; Han, Yeji [Contributor]; Hassan, Roshidah [Contributor]; Henry, Alastair [Contributor]; Khan, Muhammad Mohsin [Contributor]; Khan, Muhammad Yasir [Contributor]; Manan, Syed Abdul [Contributor]; Manan, Syed Abdul [Editor]; Nikitina, Larisa [Contributor]; Pillai, Stefanie [Contributor]; Takahashi, Chika [Contributor]; Tan, Raan Hann [Contributor]; Thompson, Amy S. [Contributor]; Umino, Tae [Contributor]; Wang, Tianyi [Contributor]; Zheng, Yongyan [Contributor]

Published: Bristol; Blue Ridge Summit: Multilingual Matters, [2024]

Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (264 p.)

Language: English

DOI: 10.21832/9781800417236

ISBN: 9781800417236

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Keywords: Language and languages Study and teaching Asia ; Motivation in education ; Multilingualism Social aspects ; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Psycholinguistics

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Footnote: In English

Description: This book focuses on individuals learning languages other than English in a range of under-researched Asian contexts. The chapters explore learners’ motivational trajectories, multilingual identities and conceptualisations of the ‘ideal multilingual self’

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