Unpacking professional identities for Business English students

Title
Unpacking professional identities for Business English students
Publication Date
2015
Author(s)
Zhang, Zuocheng
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1780-4748
Email: zzhang26@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:zzhang26
Editor
Editor(s): Dwi Noverini Djenar, Ahmar Mahboob, and Ken Cruickshank
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Place of publication
Germany
Edition
1
Series
Language and Social Processes
UNE publication id
une:18324
Abstract
Professional identities are often conceived as an important goal for learners of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) (Dressen-Hammouda 2008; Smart and Brown 2002; Artemeva 2009). While this conception makes sense if we follow Lave and Wenger's (1991: 55) theory that learning is a trajectory of "knowledgeably skilled identities", little research in the field of ESP has attempted to clarify what constitutes professional identities. As Belcher and Lukkarila (2011) demonstrate, a focus on identity or who ESP learners want to become may contribute usefully to the understanding of learners' investment in language learning. An explicit description of professional identities is therefore important for understanding learning experiences in general and ESP learning in particular.
Link
Citation
Language and Identity Across Modes of Communication, p. 291-311
ISBN
9781614513872
9781614513599
9781501500725
Start page
291
End page
311

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