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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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Language Revitalization and the Classroom: Video Workshops at an Elementary School in Miyakojima
TL;DR: In this paper , a pedagogy for language revitalization in the specific endangered language context of the Miyakoan language in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan is explored, where the role of the school in the community is indicated to become a domain for revitalization to raise the pupils' awareness of the local endangered language.
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Heritage language communities as sites of struggle and identity negotiation: a case of Korean–American university students
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Negotiating the impact of international experiences on professional identity development: A case study of Chinese college English teachers
Fengjuan Zhang,Jing Wang +1 more
TL;DR: The authors found that international experiences had a great impact on the teachers' professional identity construction by empowering them to develop multiple identities as language teaching professionals, university academics, and change agents, and that teachers' reconstruction of professional identities upon return to China was not a linear and smooth process.
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Exploring the Role of Professional Learning Community in EFL Student-Teachers’ Imagined Identity Development
TL;DR: This paper explored the role of the professional learning community in developing 12 Iranian EFL student-teachers' imagined identity, which refers to the ideal self as a professional based on virtual relationships between self and others, is essential to help teachers with future teaching practices.
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An Exploratory Study of Women Learners’ Identity and Investment in Learning English in the United Arab Emirates
TL;DR: This paper examined the influences and attitudes towards English in female Emirati students studying on a Bachelor of Education in the United Arab Emirates, and found that complex factors influencing participants' identities and reasons for investment in English were reconciled by viewing them as being founded on participants' Islamic faith.
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