Overview
- Brings together the constructs of identity and two aspects of ideologies: language ideologies and circulating ideologies
- Provides insights into a sociological and anthropological understanding of language anxiety
- Explores transcultural flows and globalization by way of a unique setting: multilingual and multicultural Singapore
Part of the book series: Multilingual Education (MULT, volume 18)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Keywords
- Applied linguistic research on Singapore
- Discourse analysis
- English in Singapore
- Globalization and educational processes
- Immigrant students in secondary education
- Immigrant students learning English
- Language anxiety
- Language ideology and language identity
- Multicultural multilingual Singapore
- Poststructuralism and Bourdieu
- Singapore's national bilingual policy
- Student immigration in the Singapore education system
- The English language syllabus and the Singapore school
- The discourse of crisis and the Speak Good English Movement
About this book
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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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Power of Identity and Ideology in Language Learning
Book Subtitle: Designer Immigrants Learning English in Singapore
Authors: Peter I. De Costa
Series Title: Multilingual Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30211-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-30209-6Published: 23 May 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80751-5Published: 27 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-30211-9Published: 09 May 2016
Series ISSN: 2213-3208
Series E-ISSN: 2213-3216
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 173
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Language Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Sociolinguistics