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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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From Rural China to the Digital Wilds: Negotiating Digital Repertoires to Claim the Right to Speak
Guangxiang Liu,Ron Darvin +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper , a qualitative case study of two Chinese university EFL learners from rural backgrounds, Andy and Jimmy, traces their progress from being struggling English language learners to confident speakers of English.
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Dominant Language Constellations in the Language Repertoires of Multilingual South African Students
TL;DR: Benjamins et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the relationship between the dominant language constellation (DLC) of multilingual people and the language repertoire and found that there is a clear complementary relationship between both.
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Neoliberalism, English, and spoiled identity: The case of a high-achieving university graduate in Hong Kong
Steve K. M. Yeung,John Gray +1 more
TL;DR: In this article , a high-achieving female university graduate in the context of contemporary Hong Kong was examined through a Foucauldian lens, while the Marxist lens allowed her to account for her plight in terms of alienation and the resulting stigma of a spoiled identity.
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“No, I’m Not Reading”: How Two Language Learners Enact Their Investments by Crossing and Blurring the Boundaries of Literacy and Orality
TL;DR: The authors made an argument for bridging the gap between Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and literacy studies from the perspective of transmodalities, i.e. ways of using language that merge and blur the modalities of writing, speaking, listening, and reading.
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The Adoption of non-Chinese Names as Identity Markers of Chinese International Students in Japan: A Case Study at a Japanese Comprehensive Research University
TL;DR: The authors explored naming practices among Chinese international students and their relation to personal identity during their sojourn in Japan and found that self-adopted non-Chinese names gradually became internalized personal identity markers that allow the bearers to explore and exhibit personality traits that might not have been as easily displayed via their given names.
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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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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
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.