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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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Identity, investment, and Chinese learners of English
Bonny Norton,Yihong Gao +1 more
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Critical literacies and language education: global and local perspectives
Brian Morgan,Vaidehi Ramanathan +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a survey of critical literacies in English for academic purposes (EAP) and globalization is presented, focusing on the use of texts to distance individual and group identities from powerful discourses.
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Accessing Imagined Communities through Multilingualism and Immersion Education.
TL;DR: This article applied constructs of language as economic and symbolic capital, transnationalism, investment, and imagined community to an analysis of interviews with immigrant parents living in Vancouver, Canada, arguing that they view multilingualism as capital and invest in language education as a means of securing their children's access to various imagined language communities.
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Re-Envisioning Language, Literacy, and the Immigrant Subject in New Mediascapes
TL;DR: This paper explored how networked electronic communications have given rise to new social spaces, linguistic and semiotic practices, and ways of fashioning the self beyond the national context for immigrant youths in the United States.
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The Imagined Communities of English Language Learners in a Pakistani School
Bonny Norton,Farah Kamal +1 more
TL;DR: A 2001-2002 study conducted among middle-school students in Karachi, Pakistan, in the wake of 9/11 found that students saw the development of literacy, competence in English, and technological advances in the future as desirable and interdependent as discussed by the authors.