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By Peter I. De Costa

This serious ethnographic school-based case research deals insights at the interplay among ideology and the id improvement of person English language rookies in Singapore. Illustrated by means of case reports of the language studying stories of 5 Asian immigrant scholars in an English-medium tuition in Singapore, the writer examines how the immigrant scholars negotiated a regular English ideology and their discursive positioning over the process the college 12 months. in particular, the learn lines how the existing normal English ideology interacted in hugely advanced methods with their being situated as excessive educational achievers to finally impact their studying of English. This powerful mixture of language ideologies and circulating ideologies created a clothier pupil immigration advanced. by way of framing this case as a fancy, the research problematizes the ability of ideologies in shaping the trajectories and identities of language learners.

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