“I Listened to Korean Society. I Always Heard that Women Should be this Way …”: The Negotiation and Construction of Gendered Identities in Claiming a Dominant Language and Race in the United States

Disciplinary Enculturation Experiences of Three Korean Students in U.S.-Based MATESOL Programs

“…That's my priority, and I came here because of my husband's study." Jinee's prioritizing her child and her husband's studies echoes Han Nah's story in Park's (2009) study. Her new identity as a MATESOL student yielded to her identities as mother and wife without much conflict in Jinee's case.…”

“I Would Study Harder if I Was a Girl”: Gendered Narratives of Low-Achieving Male and High-Achieving Female EFL Learners

“…Over the past quarter of a century, narrative inquiry has grown to be a major approach to creating knowledge, particularly in women's studies (Partridge, 2008). The history of its recognition and application in the field of gender and language studies is relatively short, but the use of narratives as data to examine second language learning as (re)construction of self has been Downloaded by [University of Connecticut] at 17:58 01 April 2015 increasingly popular (Menard-Warwick, 2009;Park, 2009;Pavlenko & Lantolf, 2000;Skapoulli, 2004;Vitanova, 2004;Warriner, 2004). It has been widely demonstrated that narratives "allow for a nuanced understanding" of the experience of second language learning "from the learners' perspective," and that they make the issues of investment and identity construction accessible to the researcher (Langman, 2004, p. 238).…”

Adult English Language Learners Constructing and Sharing Their Stories and Experiences: The Cultural and Linguistic Autobiography Writing Project

“…Studies have shown that there can be a serious disruption of the parentchild relationship when parents and children do not share a common language (e.g., Fillmore, 1991;Ovando et al, 2006). This theme of maintaining effective parent-child relationships was mostly apparent in the writing of the women learners as a way to foreground mothering and parenting identity (Park, 2009). Most of them said that one of the main goals for coming to the United States was to improve their children's educational forecast, and they wanted to be involved parents.…”