Blurb:

The first part of the book examined theoretical tensions between the social and the individual in their approaches, while this second part explores how they are resolved in data-based research.This study explores how five Japanese individuals experienced one facet of their identity, their sexual identity as self identifying gay men, across differing sociolinguistic contexts. It then attempts to establish emerging commonalities across these individual accounts that illuminate the ways in which these experiences influenced their motivational investments and agency in learning English as an international language.