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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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Paradoxes of the Canadian mosaic: “being, feeling and doing Canadian”

TL;DR: Using an intersectional framework of Asian Critical theory, politics of location, and cultural capital, the authors demonstrates how ideologies of belonging are sustained by processes of cultural and institutional socialization which maintain hierarchies privileging some social groups over others and produce racial/ized difference and inequities within Canadian citizenry.
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Contact Zones and Investment in the Advanced ESOL Writing Classroom: Practical Recommendations for Linguistically Sustaining Instruction

TL;DR: In this paper , asset-based instruction and the use of linguistically sustaining assignments such as vocabulary journals, collaborative annotations, literacy autoethnographies, and a multilingual story map are highlighted through a case study of academic English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) course at an American institution of higher education.
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Emerging Self-identities and Emotion in Foreign Language Learning: A Narrative-oriented Approach, by Miyahara, M.: (2015). Bristol, England: Multilingual Matters. 216 pp. $139.95 (hardcover); $25 (Kindle). ISBN: 9781783093816; 9781783093830

TL;DR: For instance, Alsagoff et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the relationship between additional language learning and identity in the context of L2 identity, and found that the relationship can be traced to the intricately intertwined relationship between identity and language learning.
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Identity construction of multilingual parents in the context of parental engagement

TL;DR: In this article , the authors analyze how multilingual migrant adults with kindergarten and school-aged children construct their identity while engaging with their children's education, by collecting data from diary entries, narrative interviews and observations of parent-school meetings.
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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.