PORTRAITS OF INDONESIAN LANGUAGE LEARNERS AS IMAGINED BILINGUALS.

The paper presents "portraits" of learners who desire to be proficient in both Indonesian and English languages and explores these portraits for patterns related to learners' aspirations and desires. Through this exploration, the study contributes to theory about connections between motivation and identity. This study explores synergies between notions of motivation and "future selves" (Dörnyei, 2009) and interculturality (Kramsch, 2002), and draws on the methodology of portraiture (Lawrence-Lightfoot & Davis, 1997) to emphasise and embody our subjects' contexts and voices. Primary data were gathered through observations and semi-structured interviews from three key participants relating to their contextual backgrounds and efforts to become bilingual. These portraits suggest that learners' aspirations of future imagined identities and their desires to belong to local and global communities influence their learning of an additional language. Because of the small scale of the study and the specificity of the sample, the findings cannot necessarily be generalised to a broader population. They are, nevertheless, valuable as portraits of learners becoming bilingual in Indonesia and open the doorway for future studies of Indonesian bilingual language learner identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]