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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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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
TL;DR: Bourdieu as mentioned in this paper presents a combination of social theory, statistical data, illustrations, and interviews, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judg..., which is a collection of interviews with Bourdieu.
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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (review)
TL;DR: Chung et al. as discussed by the authors present a history and theory reader of the New Media/Old Media: A History and Theory Reader, focusing on early film history and multi-media.
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A Transdisciplinary Framework for SLA in a Multilingual World
Dwight Atkinson,Heidi Byrnes,M. Doran,Patricia A. Duff,Nick C. Ellis,J. K. Hall,Karen E. Johnson,James P. Lantolf,Diane Larsen-Freeman,E. Negueruela,Bonny Norton,Lourdes Ortega,John H. Schumann,Merrill Swain,Elaine Tarone +14 more
TL;DR: The field of second language acquisition (SLA) seeks to understand the processes by which school-aged children, adolescents, and adults learn and use, at any point in life, an additional language, including second, foreign, as discussed by the authors.
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Identity and a Model of Investment in Applied Linguistics
Ron Darvin,Bonny Norton +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive model of investment, which occurs at the intersection of identity, ideology, and capital, is proposed to address the needs of learners who navigate their way through online and offline contexts.
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Language as Symbolic Power
TL;DR: The power of symbolic representation, symbolic action and the power to create symbolic reality is discussed in this paper, where a broad range of existing work by philosophers, sociolinguists, sociologists and applied linguists is presented.
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Transnationalism and Literacy: Investigating the Mobility of People, Languages, Texts, and Practices in Contexts of Migration
TL;DR: A review of research on language and literacy practices and learning in transnational contexts of migration can be found in this article, where the authors argue that as a whole these studies show the important role of language-and literacy practices in constructing and maintaining social relations across borders, and in how migrants navigate and position themselves in various social fields within and across national boundaries.
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Researcher Identity, Narrative Inquiry, and Language Teaching Research
Bonny Norton,Margaret Early +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a digital literacy study in multilingual Uganda was used to investigate the ways in which researcher identity is negotiated in language teaching research. But the focus was not on the identity of the researcher, an important stakeholder in language education.
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Racializing the Nonnative English Speaker.
TL;DR: The authors identify discursive processes by which White, middle-class, native-English-speaking, U.S.-born college students draw on a monolingualist ideology and position themselves and others within a language-race-nationality matrix.