@article{oai:icu.repo.nii.ac.jp:00002654,
 author = {Miyahara, Masuko},
 journal = {語学研究, ICU Language Research Bulletin},
 month = {},
 note = {The paper attempts to reinforce the significance of taking a narrative approach in 
identity studies in the field of applied linguistics and language learning research. 
Over the past two decades, there has been an exponential growth in the amount 
of research on identity, and the issue has been probed from two broad 
methodological orientations: one that examines learners' identity construction 
through their interaction with others, and one that pursues it through oral or 
written auto/biographical accounts of learners' experiences in learning a foreign 
language. Researchers interested in exploring the matter from the latter approach 
tend to adopt a narrative oriented perspective both in their methodology and 
analysis since they understand that narrative informs the concept of self and 
identity. It is widely understood that we construct ourselves through narratives 
that we share with each other (Bruner 1986, 1987, 1990). But how can narration 
actually construct self? This paper attempts to shed light on this issue by 1) 
following the poststructuralist understanding of identity, and 2) by framing 
narratives as experience and a meaning-making phenomena (Clandinin & 
Connelly, 2000).},
 pages = {1--15},
 title = {Researching Identity and Language Learning:Taking a Narrative Approach},
 volume = {25},
 year = {2011}
}