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1、IHadaStereotypeThatAmericanWereFat:BecomingaSpeakerofCultureinaSecondLanguageHANHTHINGUYENGUYKELLOGGHawaiiPacificUniversityKapiolaniCommunityCollegeDepartmentofInternationalStudiesLanguages,Linguistics,andLiteratureMP441,1188FortStreetMallKalia101,4303DiamondHeadRoadHonolulu,HI96813Honolulu,
2、HI96816Email:hnguyen@hpu.eduEmail:gkellogg@hawaii.eduThisarticleexamineshowadultlearnersweresocializedbyoneanotherinthecontextofcontentmaterialsinconjunctionwiththeteachersparticipation.Basedonthepremisethatsecondlanguagelearningisexperientialandemergentandusingdiscourseanalysisofstu-dentsa
3、synchronouselectronicpostingsandwritingassignmentstogetherwithethnographicobservations,wetracedthestudentsevolvingunderstandingsofaculturallyrichword,stereo-type,overthecourseofonesemester.Wefirstlookedathowthestudentsunderstoodthemeaningofstereotypeinearlydiscussions,thenathowtheseinitialun
4、derstandingschangedasthestudentsengagedinsocialactivitiesinwhichtheirstancesandidentitiesbecamerelevant,andfinallyathowthesechangeswereexhibitedinlaterdiscussionsandwrittenessays.Ouranalysisdemonstratesconcretelythatlearningasecondlanguageinvolvestheacquisitionnotonlyoflinguisticformsbutalso
5、waysofthinkingandbehavinginnewcommunitiesofpractice.THEFIELDOFSECONDLANGUAGEACQUISI-newwaysofthinking,behaving,andbeinginnewTION(SLA)hasmadesignificantstridesbytak-communities(cf.Lave&Wenger,1991;Wenger,ingasocialapproachtolanguageandlanguage1998).Inthissense,acrucialpartofbecominglearning.T
6、herealizationthattheprocessofac-acompetentparticipantinanewsocialgroup,quiringalanguageispartofamuchlargerpro-orbecomingaspeakerofculture(Ochs,2002,cessofbecomingapersoninsociety(Ochs,2002,p.99),inanL2istheprocessofassociatingp.106),originallyappliedonlytofirstlanguageparticularlinguisticfor
7、mswiththeirsituationallearning,hasbecomefundamentalforresearchmeanings(i.e.,meaningsinsocialcontexts;Ochs,onSLA.Asobservedrepeatedly(e.g.,Firth&1996).Ourgoalinthisarticle,therefore,istoWagner,1997;Hall,1997;Stoller,2006:vanLier,understandhowlearningofmea