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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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Developing a multilingual identity in the languages classroom: the influence of an identity-based pedagogical intervention

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Language and content ‘integration’: the affordances of additional languages as a tool within a single curriculum space

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Synchronous communication technologies for language learning: Promise and challenges in research and pedagogy

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Digital storytelling: facilitating learning and identity development

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Positive and negative identity practices in heritage language education

TL;DR: The authors studied the connection between frequency of language use and heritage language speakers' maintenance of their heritage language, and found that frequency was positively associated with the maintenance of the heritage language of a speaker.
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