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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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Theorizing Institutional Feelings, Bodies, and Spaces: The Case of Feminisms and Women's Studies in Pakistan

Shirin Zubair
- 01 Jan 2016 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors unpack the institutional feelings, reactions, emotions, responses, and reception practices that the teaching of Feminism and Women's Studies entail in this context and analyze the ways in which feminist bodies are read, interpreted, and silenced within institutional spaces that are shaped by historical forces of state-sponsored Islamization campaigns that are built upon the bodies of women.
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Language ideologies, heritage language use, and identity construction among 1.5-generation Korean immigrants in New Zealand

TL;DR: The authors explored language ideologies, heritage language (HL) use, and identity construction among 1.5-generation Korean immigrants in New Zealand, and found that the heritage language was used more often by Korean immigrants than English.
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Ethnolinguistic Vitality, Identity and Power: Investment in SLA:

TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between social context, identity and intergroup relations is discussed, and early formulations pertaining to contextual influences are reviewed, and vitality of contextual influences is examined.
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Dual language programs: an exploration of bilingual students’ academic achievement, language proficiencies and engagement using a mixed methods approach

TL;DR: This paper examined how a newly designed dual language program in an urban school advanced language proficiencies among Spanish-English bilingual 6th graders. But they used a mixed-methods research design.
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Ebbs and flows: a longitudinal study of an English language instructor’s motivation to learn Korean

TL;DR: This article found that native English speaking language teachers who live and work in various parts of the world often express a desire to learn the language of their host country, without sustained levels of motivation.
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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.