I-Migrations in Cultures and Languages. A Perspicacious Journey into Canada's Second/Additional Language Education

      Аннотация: In the theoretical frameworks of Vygotsky’s cognitive theory and French intellectuals’ written legacy (Cixous, Deleuze, Derrida, Foucault, Kristeva, and Lyotard), the research explores philosophical, psychological, and educational migrations of a second language (L2) learner among cultures and languages in her comprehension and further nativization of an L2 through her comprehension and nativization of the culture of the language. The work consists of Pre-Theory, Theory, and Post-Theory. The Pre-Theory part is built according to the conventional academic design. Narrative inquiry as the initial methodology of the research unfolds in innovative ways as literary-philosophical essays in the Theory part, and later as a music-poetry work in the Post-Theory part. The Theory part is a conceptual philosophy-arts piece of writing that develops based on the principle “writing as a method of knowing”. The Post-Theory part is the author’s music-poetry work “I-Migrations: Psychedelic Story” that is a practical epitome of her research theory. One day… One life… One story...

Ключевые слова: Language, culture, music, Philosophy of Language, second language education, Language, culture, music, Poststructuralism, Cixous, Derrida, Philosophy of Language, second language education, English as an Additional Language, ESL, TESL, EAL