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Intersecting scapes and new millennium identities in language learning

Higgins, Christina·2015·Language Teaching
DOI 10.1017/s0261444814000044
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This paper examines how flows of people, media, money, technology, and ideologies move through the world, with attention to how these scapes (Appadurai 1990, 1996, 2013) shape identity construction among language learners, both in and out of classrooms. After illustrating intersecting scapes in sociolinguistic terms, I explore the relevance of these ideas to identity formation among language learners, using three case studies. First, I examine the mediascape of hip hop in the ideoscape of education in Hong Kong, where an ELT Rap curriculum was designed for working class students in a low-banded secondary school. Next, I discuss how the confluence of transnationals and cosmopolitan urban residents in Tanzania provides a range of identity options for learners of Swahili that challenge nation-state-based associations of language. Finally, I consider how learners’ engagement in anime and manga from the mediascape is taken up in an introductory university-level Japanese language classroom in Hawai’i. These examples demonstrate how individuals are increasingly learning and using additional languages in the contexts of cultural mélange and new identity zones.

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  1. Pennycook, 2007, Global English and transcultural flows
  2. Black, 2008, Adolescents and online fan fiction
  3. Seo M. (2008). Novice language teachers’ development in a Japanese immersion camp. Unpublished M.A. thesis, University of Hawai’i at Manoa.

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Authors
Higgins, C.
Affiliations
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (US)
Corresponding author
Higgins, Christina
ORCID
Higgins, Christina
Venue
Language Teaching
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
2014-03-25
Volume
48
Issue
3
Pages
373-389
ISSN
  • 0261-4448 (ISSN-L)
  • 1475-3049
DOI
10.1017/s0261444814000044
OpenAlex
W1986062272
Cited by
36
References
40
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 4
FWCI
8.02
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified)
Locations
  • Language Teaching (publishedVersion)
  • Hong Kong Education Bibliographic Database (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Multilingual Education and Policy
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
  • Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies
Keywords
scape, identity construction, language learners, mediascapes, ideoscapes, hip hop, English language teaching, working-class students, Swahili language learning, transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, anime and manga, Japanese language learning, Hong Kong, Tanzania, Hawaii, multilingualism

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