The Power of Identity and Ideology in Language Learning Designer Immigrants Learning English in Singapore /

• Main Author: De Costa, Peter I. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Multilingual Education, 18
• Subjects: Education.; Sociolinguistics.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Language and education.; Language Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.

This critical ethnographic school-based case study offers insights on the interaction between ideology and the identity development of individual English language learners in Singapore. Illustrated by case studies of the language learning experiences of five Asian immigrant students in an English-me...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Foreign talent and Singapore
• Chapter 2: Reconceptualizing language, language learning, and the language learner in the age of globalization
• Chapter 3: Researching, analyzing, and constructing the data
• Chapter 4: The sociolinguistic context of Singapore and Oak
• Chapter 5: Designer student immigration and the designer student immigrant complex at Oak
• Chapter 6: Language ideologies at Oak
• Chapter 7 The designer student immigrant complex: Its impact on learning
• Chapter 8: Looking back and moving forward
• Appendix.