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Language Acquisition and the Multilingual Ideal: Exploring Japanese Language Learning Motivation

by Toshiyuki Nakamura
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781350244481
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
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  • Pages: 192
  • Original Price: GBP 32.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 277 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Linguistics / General and Japanese

Examining the motivational development of Japanese language learners, this book investigates the relationship between their future self-image as Japanese speakers and their broader self-image as multilingual individuals.

The book compares two groups of Japanese language learners, one from Australia and the other from South Korea. Questioning how motivation is influenced both by native languages and by the other languages which learners speak or study, Toshiyuki Nakamura uses dynamic systems theory (DST) to uncover how knowledge of English in these different contexts motivates the learning of Japanese. Employing the concept of 'domain of possible selves' as an analytical framework, the book also provides a detailed description of the development of the learners' visions of themselves as users of Japanese and uncovers various aspects of Japanese language learners' L2 self.

Nakamura, Toshiyuki: - Toshiyuki Nakamura is Lecturer of Japanese in the Department of International Communication, Nagasaki University of Foreign Studies, Japan. He received his PhD from Monash University in 2017. His current research interests include motivation for language learning, language identity, multilingualism and Dynamic Systems Theory.

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