“Imagining myself speaking English”

An approach to addressing student reticence to speak

in class

Taharu Tezukahttps://www.ted.com/talks/takaharu_tezuka_the_best_kindergarten_you_ve_ever_seen?language=en#t-109907

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjvq3AONXmE

What do these speakers have in

common?

• Non-standard accents• Non-standard grammar (errors?)• willingness to speak

Kachru’s circles of English

Inner - Outer - Expanding

It’s not about native-speakers

It’s about all the different ways that

people speak English

in different countries

and even in the same country, differences between individuals

Role models

inspiration?

Taharu Tezukahttps://www.ted.com/talks/takaharu_tezuka_the_best_kindergarten_you_ve_ever_seen?language=en#t-109907

comedy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjvq3AONXmE

“people like me?”

https://carroll.gnomio.com/course/view.php?id=2

You!

The Teacher

Language is not just exchanging information

it’s also making your relationship to the social world.

Bonny Norton-Pierce

Imagined identitiesImagined

communities

Can you imagine yourself as an English

speaker?

https://carroll.gnomio.com/course/view.php?id=2

Dramaworks

Jay : Hey! What are you doin’?

Nobu: Who? Me? ….. Nothing.

Jay: Oh yeah? ….. What’s that?

Nobu: This? … Oh … This isn't mine!

Jay: You got that right!

Nobu: Oh, Wow, I’m sorry. It’s yours, isn’t

it?

Jay: Yeah, it is. I thought you were stealing

it!

Nobu: Me? No! …… Wait, ……..Where’s my

bag?

Jay: Gee, I don’t know … ….. Does it look

like this?

Nobu: Oh, thank God!

Jay: Thank God!!? …….. What about me

pal?

Nobu: Oh, man, I’m sorry. Thank you!

Jay: Forget about it.

PopstarsTheo Steckler

Kyoto: Dramaworks

Useful references• Norton, B. (Guest Ed.). (1997). Language and

identity [Special issue]. TESOL Quarterly, 31(3).• Norton, B. (2013). Identity and language

learning: Extending the conversation. 2nd edition. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.

• Murphy, Tim (2001) Reported Belief Changes through Near Peer Role Modeling TEFL-EJ 5 (3)

• http://www.kuis.ac.jp/~murphey-t/Tim_Murphey/Welcome.html