Research Associate

MA (Rhodes), MPhil, PhD (Cambridge)

Email: michael.james@ru.ac.za

Research Interests

I am a researcher with a broad range of interests across the humanities and social sciences; my background is in philosophy, languages, linguistics, and education. Most recently, my research has focused on the metaphorical application of ‘investment’ in human skill development, i.e. towards the acquisition and leverage of linguistic capital.

• Sociolinguistics
• Psycholinguistics / L2 Motivation
• Philosophy of Language Education
• Sociology/anthropology of language learning
• Non-heritage & settler-descendent learning of indigenous languages
• L2/AL African language learning in South Africa

Theses & Publications

• James, M. W. (2022). L2 Investment in African languages: a multiple case study of successful white learners of African languages in post-apartheid South Africa (Doctoral thesis, 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Cambridge). https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.96337
• Moulin‐Stozek, D., & James, M. W. (2022). Religion and Social Development in Childhood. The Wiley‐Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Social Development, 405-421. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119679028.ch22
• James, M. W. (2017). The motivations of South African students with L1 English for learning isiXhosa as an additional language: a mixed methods study. (MPhil thesis. 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Cambridge). 
• James, M. W. (2016). Unity and Diversity, Love and Conflict: An Exploration of the Philosophy of Life in CS Lewis’s Cosmic Trilogy. (MA thesis, Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网). http://hdl.handle.net/10962/7345

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