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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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Three Fundamental Concepts in Second Language Acquisition and Their Relevance in Multilingual Contexts.
Claire Kramsch,Anne Whiteside +1 more
TL;DR: The authors consider how three fundamental concepts of second language acquisition (SLA), the native speaker, interlanguage, and the language learner have fared since Firth and Wagner (1997) and review the ascendancy of these concepts and their relationship to the traditional dichotomies of language learning versus language use and individual mind versus social context-as-environment.
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Sexual Identities in English Language Education: Classroom Conversations
TL;DR: The authors framed sexual diversity as a pedagogic resource and explored the role of sexual diversity in language education and gender diversity in the context of Gay and Lesbian Themes in the classroom.
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A narrative approach to exploring context in language teaching
TL;DR: In this article, a narrative inquiry case is presented to provide a framework for the discussion, and three levels of story applicable to the participant English teachers' lives are discussed, and a brief description of these levels is provided, and an illustration of each using extracts from the written story of one of the participating teachers.
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Discursive practice in language learning and teaching
TL;DR: In this article, the authors define Discursive Practice as "what is Discursive practice?" and investigate contexts of teaching and testing in language learning and Discursive Resources, and present a set of foundations for practice.
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Identity in Language and Literacy Education
Carolyn McKinney,Bonny Norton +1 more
TL;DR: Norton and Pavlenko as discussed by the authors argue that a more sophisticated understanding of language learners that locates them in the social, historical, political, and cultural contexts in which learning takes place and explores how learners negotiate and sometimes resist the diverse positions those contexts offer them.