The Applied Linguistic Individual - Sociocultural Approaches to Identity, Agency and Autonomy - Phil Benson

The Applied Linguistic Individual - Sociocultural Approaches to Identity, Agency and Autonomy - Phil Benson

10 The ideal sexual self: the motivational investments of Japanese gay male learners of English

The Applied Linguistic Individual - Sociocultural Approaches to Identity, Agency and Autonomy - Phil Benson

Ashley R. Moore
University of Wollongong

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The first part of the book examined theoretical tensions between the social and the individual in their approaches, while this second part explores how they are resolved in data-based research.This study explores how five Japanese individuals experienced one facet of their identity, their sexual identity as self identifying gay men, across differing sociolinguistic contexts. It then attempts to establish emerging commonalities across these individual accounts that illuminate the ways in which these experiences influenced their motivational investments and agency in learning English as an international language.

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Moore, Ashley. 10 The ideal sexual self: the motivational investments of Japanese gay male learners of English. The Applied Linguistic Individual - Sociocultural Approaches to Identity, Agency and Autonomy. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 135 - 151 Apr 2013. ISBN 9781908049391. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=20863. Date accessed: 28 Mar 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.20863. Apr 2013

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