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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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Translanguaging, investment and gendered identity: A case of Nepali immigrant women in Michigan

Hima Rawal
TL;DR: In this paper, a case of NEPALI IMMIGRANT women in Michigan was investigated, where they were trafficked, interviewed, and discriminated against for their race and gender.
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‘I’m a foreign teacher’: legitimate positionings in the stories of a migrant teacher

TL;DR: In this article , a qualitative study examines one migrant teacher's identity positions in the context of a peer mentoring group setting in Finland and finds that Ji Yoo's most legitimate positions were being 'foreign', novice teacher, cultural broker, and expert teacher.
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Managing and Investing in Hybrid Identities in the Globalized United Arab Emirates

TL;DR: In this paper , the interaction and competition between English and Arabic among university students in the United Arab Emirates was studied. But the results from a mixed methods survey suggest that while Arabic gets high solidarity ratings for cultural identity, English rates higher for individual identity.
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Promoting Plurilingual Competences in Primary Schools in Barcelona: A Dominant Language Constellation Approach to Teaching and Learning Languages

TL;DR: A Dominant Language Constellation approach to teaching and learning languages is described in this paper as the development of the awareness of the most expedient languages of a learner (Aronin 2016), and also as the actual pedagogical use of these languages for learning.
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Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation

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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Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity

TL;DR: Identity in practice, modes of belonging, participation and non-participation, and learning communities: a guide to understanding identity in practice.

Location of Culture

Bhabha, +1 more
TL;DR: The postcolonial and the post-modern: The question of agency as discussed by the authors, the question of how newness enters the world: Postmodern space, postcolonial times and the trials of cultural translation, 12.
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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.