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
Description
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.