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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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Cantonese learning, investments, and identities: Mainland Chinese university students' experiences during cross-border studies in Hong Kong
TL;DR: This paper investigated a group of mainland Chinese university students' experiences of learning Cantonese during their cross-border studies in Hong Kong, with respect to their investments in Cantone-mediated practices and their identity negotiations.
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“You focus, I’m talking”: A CHAT analysis of mobile dictionary use in an advanced EFL class
Warren Lilley,Joanne Hardman +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss how students and teachers in an Advanced English as a Foreign Language (EFL) class in Cape Town, South Africa, construct meaning through mobile phones.
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Culture, Identity and Attitudes of Adult Immigrant Learners of German in the Context of the German Integration Course
TL;DR: In this article, a qualitative study was conducted to investigate the impact of culture, attitudes, and identity formation on the learning process of adults in the German Integration Course in a compulsory setting in Germany, and the influence of such perspectives on their identities and as result on their learning behavior.
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Tibetan students at an interior university in China: negotiating identity, language, and power
TL;DR: The authors examined how a group of Tibetan students' situated context affects their identity (re)constructing their identity. But their focus was on the identity re-construction of the students.
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Imagined communities and identities: A spaciotemporal discourse analysis of one woman's literacy journey
Heidi R. Bacon,Jean Kaya +1 more
TL;DR: The authors investigated the narratives of Marla, a 25-year old bilingual and biliterate transnational Latina mother, who used deictics to describe herself as a global citizen, a good student, and a mature family woman.
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Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation
Jeanne Lave,Etienne Wenger +1 more
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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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.