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

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.>

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Dr Toshiyuki Nakamura, Toshiyuki Nakamura, Toshiyuki (Nagasaki University of Foreig Nakamura, Toshiyuki (Nagasaki University of Foreign Studies Nakamura, NAKAMURA TOSHIYUKI
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781350088153
• ISBN: 978-1-350-08815-3
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik, Japanisch, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Japanese, Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy