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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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In-service and Pre-service Teachers’ Orientations to Linguistic, Cultural and Worldview Diversity

TL;DR: This paper explored the orientations that emerge when pre-service and in-service teachers evaluate their preparedness to conduct certain culturally and linguistically responsive practices, with the last being the strongest.
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Academic socialization as the production and negotiation of social space

TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce the concept of academic social space as a useful construct to understand and interpret the academic language socialization of individuals in English second language academic spaces, which is based on the concepts of community of practice (Lave & Wenger 1991) and production of space (Lefebvre, 1991).
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Multilingualism and Identity: Articulating 'African-ness' in an American High School.

TL;DR: This paper examined the language practices and learning experiences of ten adolescent multilingual immigrant and refugee English Learners (ELs) from the Democrati... and drew on qualitative research that examines the language practice and learning experience of ten adolescents multilingual immigrati
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The Impact of Host Family Relations and Length of Stay on Adolescent Identity Expression during Study Abroad.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the relationship between host family success, social integration, length of stay and acquisition of adolescent language by students on extended international homestay programs.
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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.