Social Class, Habitus, and Language Learning: The Case of Korean Early Study-Abroad Students

Autor/in	Shin, Hyunjung
Titel	Social Class, Habitus, and Language Learning: The Case of Korean Early Study-Abroad Students
Quelle	In: Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 13 (2014) 2, S.99-103 (5 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1534-8458
DOI	10.1080/15348458.2014.901821
Schlagwörter	Social Capital; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Study Abroad; Foreign Countries; Social Class; Asians; Correlation; Second Language Instruction; Self Concept; Korean; Native Language; Social Mobility; Canada (Toronto); South Korea + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sozialkapital; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Studies abroad; Auslandsstudium; Ausland; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Asian; Asiat; Asiatin; Asiaten; Asiate; Korrelation; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Selbstkonzept; Koreanisch; Soziale Mobilität; Korea; Republik
Abstract	In this article, I draw on Bourdieu's (1984, 1991) notion of "habitus" in order to explore the relationship between social class, language learning, and language teaching in the context of the global economy. To illustrate my points, I use "Early Study Abroad" (ESA), the transnational educational migration that Korean middle-class families engage in in order to acquire valuable forms of global English capital. Through a discussion of the identities and language practices of Korean ESA students in Toronto, where they invested in a class-based consumption of Korean language and culture to contest the racial and linguistic stigmatization they experienced in the local context, and to index their global cosmopolitanism, I reveal how the concept of class privilege in actual practice is multilayered and sometimes contradictory; moreover, I posit that acquiring linguistic capital and leveraging it to gain class privilege are difficult and fraught ventures. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10