TODE Tomoko    Department   Hiroshima shudo University  The Faculty of Humanities and Human Sciences    Position   Professor
Date	2023/03/20
Presentation Theme	L2 selves and lingua-franca selves: How do they predict shame?
Conference	American Association for Applied Linguistics 2023
Promoters	American Association for Applied Linguistics
Conference Type	International
Presentation Type	Speech (General)
Contribution Type	Individual
Venue	Portland, USA
Publisher and common publisher	Tomoko Tode
Details	There has been a growing interest in the relationship between L2 future self-guides and emotional states. This paper focuses on L2 shame, a self-conscious negative emotion of one’s deficits, in relation to the future self-guides. According to Teimouri (2017), all three L2 future selves (ideal L2 self, ought-to L2 self/own, and ought-to L2 self/others) positively predict shame. What remains unclear relates to the norms of the L2 selves. The future selves with a lingua franca (LF) ideology, which emphasizes shared responsibility in communication, might mitigate the effects on shame (Subtirelu, 2014). We developed 16 items of Likert-scales for LF future self-guide constructs, referring to Mauranen (2006) that attested LF users’ communication strategies to achieve mutual intelligibility. The research questions were threefold: (1) what factors are revealed in the LF future self-guides, (2) how the L2 and LF selves are related to one another, and (3) how the L2 and LF future selves predict shame. The questionnaires including 38 items to measure LF future selves, L2 future selves, and shame were administered to 196 undergraduates learning English in Japan. An exploratory factor analysis conducted on the LF items with promax rotation indicated three factors: ideal LF self, ought-to LF self/own, and ought-to LF self/others. Partial correlation analyses between each two L2 or LF selves revealed that the ideal L2 self had a strong correlation (r = .66) with the ideal LF self (e.g., I can imagine myself requesting for clarification). Interestingly, the ideal LF self showed a positive correlation with the ought-to LF self/others (e.g., I should request for clarification; otherwise my conversation partner will be puzzled) (r = .49). Multiple regression analyses found the ideal LF self negatively predicted shame (β= -.20**). These results suggest LF awareness sensitive to others in communication might play a role in mitigating shame.