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Identity and Language Learning: Extending the Conversation

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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.
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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 Kramsch

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Examining the relationship between Latinos’ English proficiency, educational degree, language preferences, and their perceptions on the Americans

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Ego-Resiliency and physically-disabled learners: The Implementation of a Multiple Intelligences Teaching Approach

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Teacher Identity in CLIL: A Case Study of Two In-service Teachers

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examined how teachers negotiate their existing teacher identities in a CLIL environment and how they exercise those identities in the classroom, and found that the way teachers negotiated their identities was affected by their former personal and professional experiences, their conceptualization of the imagined community, and their investment in that community.
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Voices of English: language and the construction of religious identity amongst Ismaili Muslims in Pakistan and Tajikistan

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Professional Identity (Re)Construction of L2 Writing Scholars.

Soo Hyon Kim, +1 more
- 25 Sep 2019 - 
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