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Early Study-Abroad and Identities

Korean Early Study-Abroad Undergraduates

By: Mun Woo Lee

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Early Study-Abroad and Identities

Korean Early Study-Abroad Undergraduates

By: Mun Woo Lee

This book investigates how transnational English learning experiences can influence students’ identities. More specifically, it delineates how Korean early study abroad undergraduates perceive English and how they have formed their ethnic identities based on their early study abroad experiences. They tend to see themselves “in between” two cultures/languages and this in-between-ness is the most distinctive common characteristic of their identities. However, their in-between-ness means more than being connected to both Korea and America or hybridizing Korean and American discourses. As transnational elites who cross the borders freely, they are in a position to be cosmopolitans who can take advantage of the in-between-ness, becoming keen critics of dominant cultures in both contexts, and potentially social activists who can stand up for social justice. In short, the early study abroad experience should be understood not just in terms of language learning, but as a process by means of which learners develop social awareness in multiple language-related contexts that can lead them beyond their own circumscribed world of elitism to a position of responsibility for sharing what they have experienced and learned for the benefit of society.

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9812879102

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English Classes in Slumber

Why Korean Students Sleep in Language Education

By: S.-H. Gyemyong Ahn,Mun Woo Lee

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English Classes in Slumber

Why Korean Students Sleep in Language Education

By: S.-H. Gyemyong Ahn,Mun Woo Lee

This book explains why some Korean high school students sleep during English classes in spite of the emphasized value of English in their society. It examines how this sleeping-in-class phenomenon can be understood by means of such marginalized students’ emic outlooks on themselves, the target language, their teachers, schools, and society/culture; and by means of the views of teachers who have experienced such in-class sleepers. To understand the phenomenon more holistically, it pursues a multi-disciplinary approach drawing on studies of demotivation and amotivation, psychological needs, and student experiences of schooling, as well as sociocultural theories of learning and agency and of interpersonal dynamics, among others. On the basis of a multi-modal analysis of interview data from the student and teacher participants, it theoretically interprets the phenomenon at the classroom (‘micro-’), school (‘meso-’) and society-culture (‘macro-’) levels. Taking a humanistic/existential approach to education, it subsequently presents a number of cultural actions that it advocates implementing in a situation-sensitive manner to help in-class sleepers and their educational institutions awaken from their chronic slumber. Lastly, it presents practical and theoretical implications for more humanistic pedagogy, and global studies of student disengagement, in English-as-a-foreign-language classes.

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Springer Nature

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9811510105

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9789811510106

English Classes in Slumber

Why Korean Students Sleep in Language Education

By: S.-H. Gyemyong Ahn,Mun Woo Lee

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Why Korean Students Sleep in Language Education

By: S.-H. Gyemyong Ahn,Mun Woo Lee

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Springer Nature

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9811510105

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9789811510106

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Early Study-Abroad and Identities

Early Study-Abroad and Identities

English Classes in Slumber

English Classes in Slumber

English Classes in Slumber

English Classes in Slumber

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