Second Language Identity
Awareness, Ideology, and Assessment in Higher Education
Published on 19. February 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
316 pages
978-1-316-62572-9 (ISBN)
Description
Increasing globalization presents both challenges and opportunities to the higher education sector. This pioneering book shows how interaction between the two ?elds of foreign language pedagogy and second language acquisition (SLA) can facilitate more effective language development at an advanced level. Establishing a new research agenda to describe, assess, and study high-level language use, it uses mixed-methods analyses within a sociocognitive framework to explore constructs such as second language (L2) identity and critical language awareness as essential components of multilingualism and global citizenship. It approaches L2 advancedness from multiple perspectives, examining the L2 learner and their understanding of advanced language use, highlighting individual differences among foreign-language professionals regarding high-level language use, positing the need for uni?ed departmental missions, and analysing alternative constructs to assess L2 advancedness. Throughout, analyses of quantitative and qualitative data are used to demonstrate the multiple dimensions of advanced second language use in higher education.
Reviews / Votes
'What happens when we ask L2 students to define 'advancedness'? The response is in Malovrh and Moreno's book, and it's fascinating. Through qualitative and quantitative analyses of learners' beliefs and perceptions of advancedness, the authors capture the way the educational system constrains the relative contribution that linguistic features, critical language awareness, intercultural competence, global citizenship, and learner identity make to the definition of advancedness among undergraduate students in language programs in the US.' Cristina Sanz, Georgetown University 'What a great pleasure to read this innovative and thorough treatment of advancedness in second language acquisition. Malovrh and Moreno have pulled together an impressive coverage of the topic from a wide variety of perspectives, building on past research and including their own vision of the construct. Their journey through this topic has an emphasis on sociocognitive aspects of language learning within higher education programs and covers an impressive array of topics that includes identity, cultural studies, beliefs, actual practice, and assessment, to give a small example. This book will be of enormous interest and benefit to anyone interested in L2 advancedness, including researchers and higher education administrators.' Susan Gass, University Distinguished Professor Emerita, Michigan State UniversityMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 151 mm
Width: 229 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
474 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-316-62572-9 (9781316625729)
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Paul A. Malovrh | Nina Moreno
Second Language Identity
Awareness, Ideology, and Assessment in Higher Education
Book
08/2023
Cambridge University Press
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Persons
Paul A. Malovrh is Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics and Spanish Program Director at the University of South Carolina. Notable publications include Advancedness in Second Language Spanish (co-editor, Benjamins, 2021) and The Handbook of Advanced Pro?ciency in Second Language Acquisition (co-editor, Wiley, 2018). Nina Moreno is Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at the University of South Carolina. Notable publications include Introduccion a la lingueistica hispanica actual (co-authored, Routledge, 2017).
Content
Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1. On Actors, Architecture, and L2 Advancedness in Higher Education; Part I. Advancedness and the L2 Learner: Student Beliefs and Awareness Regarding Advancedness; 2. Advancedness, Advanced Proficiency, and L2-Spanish Learner Identity; 3. A Quantitative Analysis of L2 Learners' Beliefs Regarding Advanced L2- Spanish and Their Perceptions of Advancedness; 4. Can L2 Learners Imagine Advancedness? A Qualitative Study of Language Awareness and the Development of L2 Identity; Part II. Variable Notions of Advancedness: Institutional, Professional, and Social Perspectives; 5. Language Departments' Architecture, Ideology, and Mission Regarding L2 Advancedness; 6. A Quantitative Analysis of Variability in Perceptions of L2 Advancedness Among Practitioners, Researchers, and Administrators in Higher Education; 7. A Qualitative Analysis of Language Professionals' Descriptions of Their Ideology and Assessment of Advanced L2 Spanish; Part III. Assessment, Identity, and Critical Language Awareness as Markers of Advancedness: 8. Assessing Advancedness in the Age of Identity Construction and Global Citizenship; 9. A Quantitative Analysis of L2 Identity and Critical Language Awareness; 10. Imagining Global Citizenship and Intercultural Competence: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of L2 Learner Perceptions and Behavior in Contexts of Identity Co-Construction; 11. Sociocognitive Awareness of L2 Advancedness in Higher Education: A New Parlance for a Changing World; Bibliography; Appendices; Index.