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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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Uncertain identities of non-higher-education-based EFL teacher educators: a third space theory perspective

TL;DR: Although research on teacher educators identities has received increasing attention in recent years, non-higher education-based teacher educators' professional identities are still under-researche... as mentioned in this paper.
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Study abroad, heritage language learning, and identity: a study of a mixed-heritage learner of Korean

TL;DR: In this paper , a Korean learner with a Korean immigrant mother and a European-descent New Zealander father, constructed her identities and engaged with Korean as a heritage language (HL) before, during and after studying abroad in Korea.
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Partners in Resettlement and Adult Education: Former Refugees and Host Communities

TL;DR: New Zealand has expanded its refugee resettlement programme as mentioned in this paper, which will present settlement and language support challenges and opportunities, and earlier experience seems to point the way to some successful strategies. Government policy changes, announced in 2018, meant the refugee quota which has been 750 for about 30 years would increase to 1500 people (Immigration New Zealand, Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment, New Zealand immigration.
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‘What’s the problem? I am happy that you are my customer!’ African immigrant women’s emotional labour and resilience in a multilingual workplace

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors report on semi-structured interviews with four African immigrant women working as shop assistants in a China Town shopping centre in the Western Cape, South Africa, where they found that negative emotions African immigrants experience are associated more with threatened life chances, than with non-standard speech forms.
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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

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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.