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Kaiper, Anna – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Domestic workers have played an essential role in the history of South Africa; and yet, current research neither explores the educational experiences of these women nor examines the ways in which national discourses surrounding English language learning influence their educational motivations. This dissertation aims to ameliorate this dearth of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Ethnography
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Pomerantz, Anne – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2010
Building on contemporary to approaches to narrative theory and analysis, this article examines how university students enrolled in an advanced Spanish-as-a-foreign-language course textually position themselves and are positioned by others as legitimate or illegitimate users of Spanish in the stories they tell about speaking the language outside…
Descriptors: Social Class, Advanced Students, Ethnicity, Speech Communication