6.3 Proximity of Possible Disciplinary Selves in I...
In this section, six personal recounts are analysed to investigate how learners experience an ongoing process of possible disciplinary selves construction that bridges the past, present and future time.By following Martin and Rose’s (2009) generic stages, it has been found that all personal recounts record the learning events alongside a timeline from the past to the present or/and the future.Here, each personal recount is organised into three parts, that is, the participant’s biographical background, the participant’s attitudinal orientation to the field of discipline, and the participant’s proximity of disciplinary selves in the field of discipline.Moreover, all extracts presented in the writing are elicited from the source texts in Chinese as well as the word-byword translated one.In order to provide a synoptic understanding of the results, I summarise the findings in Table 6.2 below.
Table 6.2 Overview of possible disciplinary selves in personal recounts
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