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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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Metadiscourse and Identity Construction in Teaching Philosophy Statements: A Critical Case Study of Two MATESOL Students

TL;DR: This paper investigated how two English as a second or foreign language instructors constructed their identity in a teaching philosophy statement written for a master's in TESOL (MATESOL) course and found that both instructors employed almost all metadiscourse resources in the model to construct the identity of a competent graduate student and that of a knowledgeable and reflective teacher.
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Multilingualism, Multilingual Identity and Academic Attainment: Evidence from Secondary Schools in England

TL;DR: The relationship between multilingualism and academic attainment is not well understood as discussed by the authors, where research on this topic exists, i.e., the relationship between multi-lingualism in schools and academic achievement is poorly understood.
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Identity, Language Learning, and Critical Pedagogies in Digital Times

Ron Darvin, +1 more
TL;DR: This chapter examines how critical pedagogies have responded to the new structures and relations of power that have evolved in increasingly digital times and recommends specific research areas that will help create transformative critical pedagogueies: issues of political economy, digital exclusion, and methodological innovations.
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Language Curriculum Planning for the Third Millennium: A Future Perspective

TL;DR: In this paper, the putative future of language curriculum development in the third millennium has been discussed, starting from the educational philosophy and moving on to related topics, and the authors aim at envisaging a coherent framework.
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Extended/distributed cognition and the native speaker

TL;DR: The authors reconsiders the concept of native speaker in the light of current theories of extended and distributed cognition, which allow to redefine it in corporeal and intrapersonal terms, rescuing its liberating aspects, which have not been negligible, while providing a sustainable basis for rejecting it in those contexts where it is oppressive.
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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

Bhabha, +1 more
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.