EFL Students' Understanding of Their Multilingual English Identities.

Autor/in	Zacharias, Nugrahenny T.
Titel	EFL Students' Understanding of Their Multilingual English Identities.
Quelle	In: Electronic journal of foreign language teaching, 9 (2012) 2, S. 233-244 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0219-9874
Schlagwörter	Empirische Forschung; Identität; Lehrerausbildung; Sprachgebrauch; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Mehrsprachigkeit; Englischunterricht; Interkultureller Vergleich; Indonesien
Abstract	Little is known about how multilingual English users (MEUs) in EFL contexts such as Indonesia understand and construct their MEU identities. The purpose of the study is to explore how 30 students in a pre-service teacher education frame their multilingual English identities as written in response journals, part of a course requirement in a Cross-cultural Understanding (CCU) course. The findings illustrate that many of the partici-pants negotiated their identities based on a core identity derived from their assumed first language (L1) culture. With regard to the English use, encounters with native speakers appeared to magnify their linguistic insecurity, viewing their nonnative status as a drawback. All of the participants appeared to be fully aware that the use of English in public spaces would project negative identities as Indonesian nationals. Implications for pre-service teacher education programs are made at the end of the paper. (Verlag).
Erfasst von	Informationszentrum für Fremdsprachenforschung, Marburg
Update	2022/2