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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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Young learners’ portrayals of ‘good English teacher’ identities in South Korea

TL;DR: This article examined how 577 young English learners (K-6th grade) come to demonstrate their understanding of GLT by making use of visual images and written narratives and found that learners place themselves in the storied worlds seem to provide evidence for how teacher identity is co-constructed with the notion of learner identity.

Discovering Voices, Discovering Selves: Auto-ethnographic Examinations of the Relationships between Japanese Queer Sexualities and English as Language and Culture

TL;DR: In this article, Hayward et al. proposed a dissertation committee consisting of Dr. Nancy Hayward, Dr. Lilia Savova, and Dr. Robert Heasley, with the following members:
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Understanding the Interconnectedness between Language Choices, Cultural Identity Construction and School Practices in the Life of a Latina Educator

TL;DR: In this article, the efectos of ideologias linguisticas sobre a person's identity cultural and the desarrollo of her habilidades lectoescritoras are discussed.
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Identity construction through English language learning in intra-national migration: a study on Uyghur students in China

TL;DR: The authors explored how a group of Uyghur minority students construct their identities in and through English language learning experiences as they move from Xinjiang UYghur Autonomous Region to study in a prestigious East coastal university in China.
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English and the transnational Ismaili Muslim community: identity, the Aga Khan, and infrastructure

TL;DR: The adoption of English as the official language of the transnational Ismaili Muslim community has its roots in the British Raj, which provides the backdrop for recent ismaili history as mentioned in this paper.
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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.