MonographDOI
Identity and Language Learning: Extending the Conversation
Bonny Norton,Claire Kramsch +1 more
TLDR
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
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Newly arrived immigrant youth in Sweden negotiate identity, language & literacy
TL;DR: The authors presented findings from a qualitative study of the nature of language learning among newly arrived immigrant and refugee students attending a linguistically isolated urban elementary school in Sweden, and analyzed the perspectives and learning of these students within this sociolinguistic context.
Book ChapterDOI
L2 Motivation and Investment
TL;DR: In this paper, investment and motivation are complementary theories that examine the extent to which individuals are able to engage with and commit to L2 learning, where motivation is a sociological construct that signals how the relationship of learners to a target language is historically and culturally constructed.
Journal ArticleDOI
Learning in the shadows: parents’ investments, family burden, and students’ workload in Dhaka, Bangladesh
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how parents' investments in their children's private tutoring create high expectations and competition that bring financial burden to families in a disadvantaged society, and the experiences of students' workloads due to extra lessons of several subjects in a day, exam preparation pressure, and parents' and peer pressures in the desire not to lag behind.
Journal ArticleDOI
Word processors as monarchs: computer-generated feedback can exercise power over and influence EAL learners' identity representations
TL;DR: The results obtained show that while the participants relied on computer-generated feedback to spell correctly and to make well-formed sentences, they experienced pressures, control and power from automatic feedback, which subsequently influenced their identity representations.
Journal ArticleDOI
Undergraduate students' motivation to learn and attitudes towards English in multilingual Pakistan: A look at shifts in English as a world language
Ghulam Rasool,Paula Winke +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated undergraduate students' motivation to learn English in Pakistan using Dornyei's (2009) L2 Motivational Self System as the theoretical framework, and additionally investigated the attitudes of the participants, and how they felt about the status of English as the official language of Pakistan and as the medium of competitive examinations.
References
More filters
Book
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.
Book
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
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.
Book
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.