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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
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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
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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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Contesting ‘Language’ as ‘Heritage’: Negotiation of Identities in Late Modernity
Adrian Blackledge,Angela Creese,Taşkin Baraç,Arvind Bhatt,Shahela Hamid,Li Wei,Vally Lytra,Peter Martin,Chao-Jung Wu,Dilek Yağcioğlu +9 more
TL;DR: This article found that multilingual young people in complementary school classrooms use linguistic resources in sophisticated and creative ways to negotiate subject positions which appear to contest and subvert schools' attempts to impose upon them "heritage" identities.
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Audible Difference: ESL and Social Identity in Schools
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a new theoretical framework for language identity and audibility: A New Theoretical Framing, which is based on the notion of speaking and identity.
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Disciplinary Identities: Individuality and Community in Academic Discourse
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how authors convey aspects of their identities within the constraints placed upon them by their disciplines' rhetorical conventions, and demonstrate the effectiveness of keyword and collocation analysis in highlighting both the norms of a particular genre and an author's idiosyncratic choices.
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Apples and Oranges: Or, Why Apples Are Not Orange and Don't Need to Be A Response to Firth and Wagner
TL;DR: In this article, a response to the article by Firth and Wagner (FW claims that are attributed to certain researchers were not ones made by those researchers), the authors argue that the scope of inquiry that F&W attribute to some SLA research is quite different from the actual area of inquiry.
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Identity, Development and Desire: Critical Questions
TL;DR: The concept of identity is increasingly being asked to bear a heavy theoretical burden in discourses concerned with education, learning, development, and the relation of the individual and the social as discussed by the authors.