Cross-Cultural Identity Re/Construction: Learning and Writing in an Additional Language

Li, Xuemei

ISBN 10: 3843361207 / ISBN 13: 9783843361200

Published by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cross-Cultural Identity Re/Construction: Learning and Writing in an Additional Language
• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3843361207
• ISBN 13: 9783843361200
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Like New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

This book explores the identity reconstruction of graduate students in additional language (AL) contexts. It addresses not only the issue of language proficiency in self-representation, but also more complicated factors that influence self-positioning and perceived social positioning in an additional culture, as well as ways of establishing the self in academic writing. The research on which the book is based is grounded in language learning theories in second language education and identity theories in linguistics, sociology, and cultural studies. The author elaborates on the connections of personal identity and writer identity, and conceptualizes for AL speakers a mediated space that incorporates home culture and host culture but goes beyond the overlap of the two, as well as a mediated self that is achieved through negotiation with the available options in their respective social context. Such conceptualization sheds light on the understanding of identity issues among cross-cultural individuals. Professionals and students who are interested in this body of research should find the book useful.

About the Author

Xuemei Li is Assistant Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. She specializes in the areas of teaching English as an additional language and cross-cultural identity construction. Her publications cover topics on beliefs in ESL/EAL contexts, identities in additional language writing, and creation of classroom interculture.