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Identity and Language Learning: Extending the Conversation
Bonny Norton,Claire Kramsch +1 more
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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.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
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Starting College, Quitting Foreign Language: The Case of Learners of Chinese Language during Secondary-Postsecondary Transition
Wenhao Diao,Hsuan-Ying Liu +1 more
TL;DR: This article focused on five initially committed learners of Chinese who decide to quit the language during their college freshman year, and focused on the institutional structure that disengages learners from the language program.
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Role of Self-Identity and Self-Determination in English Learning among High School Students
Wanying Zhou,Mingming Zhou +1 more
TL;DR: This paper examined the role of motivation and identity in language learning and found that they are two important constructs jointly by explorin- ing them jointly by exploring the two important construct jointly in the context of language learning.
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“How Is My English?”: Chinese University Students’ Attitudes Toward China English and Their Identity Construction:
TL;DR: Due to the spread of the English language in various domains and the fact that English is used as a global language, researchers and educators have started to rethink the models and aims of English.
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Translating culture in global times: an introduction
Claire Kramsch,Hua Zhu +1 more
TL;DR: The Translating Cultures colloquium at AILA World Congress in Rio 2017 as mentioned in this paper explored issues of diversity and the translation of experience across social and cultural domains, whether as overt, covert or translanguaging processes and they explored the impact of global information and communication technologies on these processes.
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English as a Site of Evangelical Contact: A Critical Ethnography of Missionary English Teaching between South and North Koreans.
TL;DR: The authors explored the power relations between evangelicals and North Korean young adults learning English in Christian educational programs in South Korea, drawing from a larger ethnography of young adults in North Korea learning English.
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Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation
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