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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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EFL learners developing critical intercultural awareness through process drama : dialogue and discovery
TL;DR: In this paper, a reflective account of an action research project that explores the how and why critical intercultural awareness can be developed in process drama praxis in the context of the Advanced English Learners' Programmes for 27 junior high school students in Taiwan is presented.
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Cultural beliefs and language teaching: The case of university English teachers in Japan
TL;DR: In this article, two scales were hypothesized: Essentialism in the Concept of Culture (ECC) and Intercultural Inclination (ICI), and the results offer insight into teachers views on culture and identify certain issues that may impact how teachers understand and incorporate culture in their classrooms.
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Language Choice Among Peers in Project-Based Learning: A Hong Kong Case Study of English Language Learners’ Plurilingual Practices in Out-of-Class Computer-Mediated Communication
TL;DR: This paper tracked the out-of-class activities of 16 students (four project groups) involved in project work on a course in English for science students at an English-medium university in Hong Kong and found that these interactions are plurilingual, with students drawing on English, Chinese and mixed code to different extents as they go about their project work.
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Poetic identity in second language writing: Exploring an EFL learner’s study abroad experience
TL;DR: This paper investigated the way in which an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) college student wrote haiku, a three line Japanese poem with a specific number of syllables in each line in a second language (L2) to express his study abroad experience.
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Measuring social interaction during study abroad: Quantitative methods and challenges
TL;DR: The authors examines ways of measuring (assigning numbers to) social interaction and language use during study abroad and describes some of the connections that have been made between quantitative measures of social second language use and language development while abroad.
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Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation
Jeanne Lave,Etienne Wenger +1 more
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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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.