Learner Identity Construction of EFL Postgraduate Students: A Narrative Case Study
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.211021.003How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Learner identity, English language learners, Postgraduate students
- Abstract
The learners of English as a foreign language commonly have a variety of linguistic and cultural background and the learning of a new language will influence how they construct their identity. The present narrative case study attempted to explore how English learning has shaped the learner identity of two Indonesian postgraduate students of English. Two participants, Hera and I, were included in this study. To collect the data, interview was conducted to gain Hera’s stories about her identity construction journey, and autobiography narrative was used to describe mine. The data collected covered our reflections of several significant events in constructing our learner identity. The result was revealed through three themes: our learning experiences which covered our initial encounter with English, teaching approaches, and the challenges we found during English learning; source of motivation in learning; and cultural influence.
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- © 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Ai Fatmawati PY - 2021 DA - 2021/10/23 TI - Learner Identity Construction of EFL Postgraduate Students: A Narrative Case Study BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Education, Language, Literature, and Arts (ICELLA 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 13 EP - 19 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211021.003 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.211021.003 ID - Fatmawati2021 ER -