Journal Articles
Global, local or glocal? Identities of L2 learners in English as a Lingua Franca communication
- Global, local or glocal? Identities of L2 learners in English as a Lingua Franca communication
- Language, Culture and Curriculum, 27(1), 43-57, 2014
- Routledge
- 2014
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- Hong Kong
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- 1997.7 onwards
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- Post-Secondary Education
- This paper reports on an exploratory inquiry into the perceptions of a group of second language (L2) learners of English with regard to their identities in English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) communication contexts. Drawing upon data gathered from two rounds of in-depth interviews with nine participants from a Hong Kong university, the study found that these L2 learners displayed different degrees of affiliations with their local and global identities in ELF communication. While some participants expressed their preference to foreground either their local or global identities, some other participants reconciled their local and global identities and embraced their hybrid, glocal identities in ELF communication. The analysis suggests that ELF communication could offer a myriad of identity options for L2 learners and give rise to hybrid linguistic practices in their L2. Finally, the paper points to the need to acknowledge the role of individuality in identity construction in ELF settings.[Copyright of Language, Culture and Curriculum is the property of Routledge. Full article may be available at the publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07908318.2014.890210]
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- English
- Journal Articles
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- 07908318
- https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/c09ebb4e
- 2014-10-22
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