Learner Narratives of Translingual Identities A Multimodal Approach
This book addresses translingual identities through an innovative multimodal analysis of the language learning histories of a class of advanced learners of English in Japan who grew up between two or more languages. The author explores both the translingu
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TRANSLINGUAL IDENTITIES A M U LT I M O D A L A P P R O A C H T O E X P L O R I N G LANGUAGE LEARNING HISTORIES
PAT R I C K K I E R N A N
Learner Narratives of Translingual Identities
Patrick Kiernan
Learner Narratives of Translingual Identities A Multimodal Approach to Exploring Language Learning Histories
Patrick Kiernan Kenkyuto Meiji University Tokyo, Japan
ISBN 978-3-319-95437-0 ISBN 978-3-319-95438-7 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95438-7 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018951365 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: © BLACKDAY / Getty Images This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Preface
Some research projects are carefully planned in advance. Others are more serendipitous and grow out of a culmination of circumstances. The project described in this book was of this latter kind, so it is perhaps worth explaining this here before setting it in the broader contexts of previous research and the educational and cultural context as I do in the body of the book itself. The impetus to explore what I call the “translingual identities” of language learners as they emerge in the narrative learning history peer interviews of a class of Japanese students began both as a next step to a project described in a previous book concerned with local and foreign language teachers in Japan. It also offered an opportunity for me to get deeper into the experiences of a specific class of learners that interested me at the time who also happened to be taking an English based course focused on educational issues. After writing my first book Narrative identity in English language teaching (Kiernan 2010), in
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