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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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Humanising Language Learning

TL;DR: The authors argue for a radical shift in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and language learning pedagogy research, which aims to shift the personal to the centre ground of SLA by introducing more subjective and experiential perspectives to language learning as an alternative and yet key component of SLAs research.

Dialogic Learner and Identity Changes in the English Majors at a University for Liberal Arts

TL;DR: In this paper , qualitative research on the development of learner identity via "dialogic learner" via a newly-constructed teaching model is presented. But the authors focus on two trajectories of identity changes: the first, found in the first and second groups, was from being one-dimensional learners to becoming multi-dimensional ones; the second, emerging among the second group, was to becoming more active and adequately-prepared ones.
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Social participation and identity change during study abroad: British sojourners in China

TL;DR: This paper examined a group of British students' identity change in China and found that despite an outset perception of "otherness", some students sought excitement and new experiences while others strengthened national identities.
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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.