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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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Multimodal Autobiographies as Sites of Identity Construction in Second-Language Teacher Education

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Heritage language use in the workplace: 1.5-generation Korean immigrants in New Zealand

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Exploring the Professional Identity Construction of ELT Researchers in Higher Education

TL;DR: This article explored how a Masters student, a doctoral student, and a university instructor in applied linguistics in higher education constructed and reconstructed their professional identities as ELT researchers and how they coped with the contextual challenges in this regard.
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Ideologizing age in an era of superdiversity: A heritage language learner practice perspective

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Challenging the "Non-Native English Speaker" Identity in U.S. Higher Education: A Case of International Graduate Students

TL;DR: The authors explored how graduate students perceived their own and others' participation in class discussions and found that most participants felt that unequal power relations exist in classroom communities, and some non-native students felt marginalized in the classroom.
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