This theoretical paper reconceptualizes English learning motivation as a historically situated sociolinguistic construct involving legitimacy, community, and positive future imaginaries. Through a critical rereading of Gardner’s integrativeness, it argues that English learning motivation has often been organized by a centripetal orientation toward an imagined normative center sustained by nativespeakerism, racialized speaker images, and credentialing and assessment infrastructures. The paper then reinterprets international posture as a neutralizing reorientation that weakens the assimilationist desire to target a bounded “native-speaker” community and reframes English as a plural, polycentric, and negotiable medium. However, such decentering remains partial because center-coded norms continue to operate in assessment and labor-market gatekeeping. Building on this tension, the paper proposes a centrifugal turn in twenty-first-century English learning motivation, shaped by platform-mediated English use and polycentric publics. In this turn, learners imagine English as a medium for outward participation, voice, and interpretive authority while mobilizing local repertoires as symbolic capital. Using South Korea as an illustrative case, the paper advances a post-integrative rationale for English learning and proposes a centripetal–neutral–centrifugal force-field model for future research.
한국어
이 이론 논문은 영어 학습 동기를 맥락과 무관한 심리적 성향이 아니라, 정당성, 공동체, 긍정적 미래상과 관련된 역사적 맥락 속의 사회언어학적 구인으로 재개념화한다. 본 논문은 Gardner 의 통합성을 비판적으로 재해석하면서, 영어 학습 동기가 원어민 중심주의, 인종화된 화자 이미지, 자격 인증 및 평가 체계에 의해 유지되는 상상된 규범적 중심을 향한 구심적 지향으로 조직되어 왔다고 주장한다. 이어 국제적 자세를 경계가 분명한 “원어민” 공동체를 향한 동화주의적 욕망을 완화하고, 영어를 다원적, 다극적, 협상 가능한 매체로 재구성하는 중립적 재지향으로 해석한다. 그러나 평가 체계와 노동시장 진입 과정에서 중심 규범이 여전히 작용하기 때문에 이러한 탈중심화는 부분적일 수밖에 없다. 이러한 긴장을 바탕으로 본 논문은 플랫폼 매개 영어사용과 다극적 공중에 의해 형성되는 21 세기 영어 학습 동기의 원심적 전환을 제안한다. 이 전환에서 학습자는 영어를 외부지향적 참여, 보이스, 해석적 권위를 위한 매체로 상상하며, 자신의 로컬 레퍼토리를 상징자본으로 활용한다. 한국을 예시로 삼아, 본 논문은 영어 학습의탈통합적 근거와 구심적–중립적–원심적 힘의 장 모델을 제시한다.
목차
Abstract 요약 Introduction The Self Turn Revisited: From Self-Guides to Legitimacy Work Centripetal Integrativeness as a Motivational Imaginary of “the Center” Neutral International Posture and English as a Lingua Franca: Decentering the Target Community A Centrifugal Turn in the 2020s: Platformized Circulation of English and “Reverse Integration” Beyond Integrative Motivation: Why Non-Inner-Circle Learners Still Learn English Without Integration Implications for Research and Teaching: Evidence, Design, and Legitimacy-Aware Pedagogy Summary The Author References
키워드
L2 motivationpost-integrative motivationintegrativenessinternational posturelegitimacyforce-field model
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이 권호 내 다른 논문 / The Journal of AsiaTEFL Vol.23 No.2