{"title":"Does being gay motivate the language learning journey of a sexually marginalised ‘refugee’?","authors":"Junjie Li, Zi Wang","doi":"10.1017/s0261444824000156","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not. They are strangers in their birthplace … Perhaps it is this sense of strangeness that sends men far and wide in the search for something permanent, to which they may attach themselves … Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs …","PeriodicalId":47770,"journal":{"name":"Language Teaching","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Language Teaching","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0261444824000156","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not. They are strangers in their birthplace … Perhaps it is this sense of strangeness that sends men far and wide in the search for something permanent, to which they may attach themselves … Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs …
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Language Teaching is the essential research resource for language professionals providing a rich and expert overview of research in the field of second-language teaching and learning. It offers critical survey articles of recent research on specific topics, second and foreign languages and countries, and invites original research articles reporting on replication studies and meta-analyses. The journal also includes regional surveys of outstanding doctoral dissertations, topic-based research timelines, theme-based research agendas, recent plenary conference speeches, and research-in-progress reports. A thorough peer-reviewing procedure applies to both the commissioned and the unsolicited articles.