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Identity and Language Learning: Extending the Conversation
Bonny Norton,Claire Kramsch +1 more
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In this paper, Kramsch et al. discuss the world of adult immigrant language learners and claim the right to speak in classrooms and communities in order to learn second language acquisition theory revisited.Abstract:
Preface Introduction 1. Fact and fiction in language learning 2. Researching identity and language learning 3. The world of adult immigrant language learners 4. Eva and Mai: Old heads on young shoulders 5. Mothers, migration and language learning 6. Second language acquisition theory revisited 7. Claiming the right to speak in classrooms and communities Afterword by Claire Kramschread more
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Bridging imagination and informal digital learning of English: a mixed-method investigation
TL;DR: This article examined the complex relationship between imagination and informal digital learning of English (IDLE) and found that learners invest in IDLE trajectories by utilising the power of imagination to negotiate their desired memberships in imagined international communities.
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Age, Motivation, and Theories of L2 Learning
TL;DR: There are several ways to learn an L2 and different opportunities and conditions for doing so as discussed by the authors, and learners differ with regard to their aptitude for language learning, willingness to communicate, self-confidence, level of anxiety, and cognitive ability.
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Border crossings: use of linguistic studies across subject disciplines
TL;DR: The kind of cross-disciplinary research which marries linguistics, languages and communication with other disciplines is shared to show how knowledge achieved from such research can result in trans-disciplinary recombination and expertise in other professional domains.
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Asserting Koreanness in South Korean middle school English textbooks
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Reconceptualizing Language, Language Learning, and the Language Learner in the Age of Globalization
TL;DR: The authors consider how education in general and language learning in particular have been affected by processes of globalization and discuss ways in which issues of structure and agency that constitute a poststructural approach to language learning have been taken up by critical researchers of second language learning.
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Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation
Jeanne Lave,Etienne Wenger +1 more
TL;DR: This work has shown that legitimate peripheral participation in communities of practice is not confined to midwives, tailors, quartermasters, butchers, non-drinking alcoholics and the like.
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Reproduction in education, society and culture
TL;DR: The Second Edition of Bourdieu's Theory of Symbolic VIOLENCE as discussed by the authors is a collection of essays about the foundation of a theory of symbolic violence and its application in higher education.