Discourses of Identity

Introduction: Language learner and teacher identity in multilingual Japan (Ryuko Kubota).- Part I: English Language Learner Identity.- Chapter 1: English language learners' discursive constructions of national and global identities in the Japanese university context (Martin Mielick).- Chapter 2: It's because I'm Japanese': Examining L2 learners' core beliefs and silent behaviour using a cognitive-behavioural theory-based approach (Kate Maher).- Chapter 3: Becoming the paths we tread: Learning through an ideological landscape of practice (Daniel Hooper).- Chapter 4: Constructing linguistic identity under native-speakerism: A case study of a migrant student studying English in Japan (Xinqi He).- Part II: Japanese Language Learner Identity.- Chapter 5: Am I a nurse? Conflicts in the professional identities of three Indonesian nurses who came to Japan through an Economic Partnership Agreement (Chiharu Shima).- Chapter 6: Language Learning as a Shelter: Restoring a Positive Self-Image by Learning a Second Language (Kazuhiro Yonemoto).- Chapter 7: No need to invest in the Japanese language?': The changes of career choices and identities for plurilingual Chinese students in Japan (Keiko Kitade).- Chapter 8: Who speaks yasashii nihongo for whom?: Reimagining the socially constructed 'beneficiary' and the 'benefactor' identities of plain Japanese for 'foreigners' (Noriko Iwasaki).- Chapter 9: A discursive construction of Nikkei identity and interculturality: Official hybridity, constructed desire, and a masked heterogeneity (Kyoko Motobayashi).- Part III: Indigenous Language Revitalization and Identity.- Chapter 10: The process of constructing and reclaiming Ainu identity: the Urespa project initiative (Yumiko Ohara & Yuki Okada).- Chapter 11: In search of Indigenous identity through re-creation of Ainu self-sustaining community: praxis and learning in action (Tatsiana Tsagelnik).- Chapter 12: New Speakers of Ryukyuan languages: Negotiation,

Martin Mielick is Senior Lecturer at the English Language Institute at Kanda University of International Studies, Chiba, Japan.
Ryuko Kubota is Professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia, Canada. 

Luke Lawrence is an English Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Toyo University, Japan.