Publications

Publication details [#60776]

Ritzau, Ursula. 2015. Self-positioning through beginners' foreign language. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 25 (1) : 105–126.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

foreign language acquisition | identity negotiation | language use | self-presentation | written language

Language as a subject

Danish

Place, Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/ijal

Annotation

Drawing on written data from Swiss university students acquiring Danish as a foreign language, this study shows that (identity work or) self-positioning may take place even via beginners' foreign language.