Identity and Language Learning

2013-10-04
Identity and Language Learning

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  • Author: Bonny Norton
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 178309057X
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 352

Identity and Language Learning draws on a longitudinal case study of immigrant women in Canada to develop new ideas about identity, investment, and imagined communities in the field of language learning and teaching. Bonny Norton demonstrates that a poststructuralist conception of identity as multiple, a site of struggle, and subject to change across time and place is highly productive for understanding language learning. Her sociological construct of investment is an important complement to psychological theories of motivation. The implications for language teaching and teacher education are profound. Now including a new, comprehensive Introduction as well as an Afterword by Claire Kramsch, this second edition addresses the following central questions: - Under what conditions do language learners speak, listen, read and write? - How are relations of power implicated in the negotiation of identity? - How can teachers address the investments and imagined identities of learners? The book integrates research, theory, and classroom practice, and is essential reading for students, teachers and researchers in the fields of language learning and teaching, TESOL, applied linguistics and literacy.

Self and Identity in Adolescent Foreign Language Learning

2013-07-04
Self and Identity in Adolescent Foreign Language Learning

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  • Author: Florentina Taylor
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1783090014
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 288

This book explores the role of identity in adolescent foreign language learning to provide evidence that an identity-focused approach can make a difference to achievement in education. It uses both in-depth exploratory interviews with language learners and a cross-sectional survey to provide a unique glimpse into the identity dynamics that learners need to manage in their interaction with contradictory relational contexts (e.g. teacher vs. classmates; parents vs. friends), and that appear to impair their perceived competence and declared achievement in language learning. Furthermore, this work presents a new model of identity which incorporates several educational psychology theories (e.g. self-discrepancy, self-presentation, impression management), developmental theories of adolescence and principles of foreign language teaching and learning. This book gives rise to potentially policy-changing insights and will be of importance to those interested in the relationship between self, identity and language teaching and learning.

Identity, Motivation and Autonomy in Language Learning

2011-04-14
Identity, Motivation and Autonomy in Language Learning

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  • Author: Garold Murray
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1847694985
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 277

In this volume researchers from Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North and South America employ a variety of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches in their exploration of the links between identity, motivation, and autonomy in language learning. On a conceptual level the authors explore issues related to agency, metacognition, imagination, beliefs, and self. The book also addresses practice in classroom, self-access, and distance education contexts, considering topics such as teachers’ views on motivation, plurilingual learning, sustaining motivation in distance education, pop culture and gaming, study abroad, and the role of agency and identity in the motivation of pre-service teachers. The book concludes with a discussion of how an approach which sees identity, motivation, and autonomy as interrelated constructs has the potential to inform theory, practice and future research directions in the field of language teaching and learning.

Identity and Second Language Learning

2006-12-01
Identity and Second Language Learning

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  • Author: Miguel Mantero
  • Publisher: IAP
  • ISBN: 1607527006
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 400

This collection of research has attempted to capture the essence and promise embodied in the concept of “identity” and built a bridge to the realm of second language studies. However, the reader will notice that we did not build just one link. This volume brings to light the diversity of research in identity and second language studies that are grounded the notions of community, instructors and students, language immersion and study abroad, pop culture and music, religion, code switching, and media. The chapters reflect the efforts of contributors from Canada, Japan, Norway, New Zealand, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States who performed their research in the countries just mentioned and in other regions around the world. Because of this, this volume truly offers an international perspective.

The Power of Identity and Ideology in Language Learning

2016-05-09
The Power of Identity and Ideology in Language Learning

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  • Author: Peter I. De Costa
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 3319302116
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 186

This critical ethnographic school-based case study offers insights on the interaction between ideology and the identity development of individual English language learners in Singapore. Illustrated by case studies of the language learning experiences of five Asian immigrant students in an English-medium school in Singapore, the author examines how the immigrant students negotiated a standard English ideology and their discursive positioning over the course of the school year. Specifically, the study traces how the prevailing standard English ideology interacted in highly complex ways with their being positioned as high academic achievers to ultimately influence their learning of English. This potent combination of language ideologies and circulating ideologies created a designer student immigration complex. By framing this situation as a complex, the study problematizes the power of ideologies in shaping the trajectories and identities of language learners.

The Complexity of Identity and Interaction in Language Education

2020-08-07
The Complexity of Identity and Interaction in Language Education

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  • Author: Nathanael Rudolph
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1788927443
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 408

This book addresses two critical calls pertaining to language education. Firstly, for attention to be paid to the transdisciplinary nature and complexity of learner identity and interaction in the classroom and secondly, for the need to attend to conceptualizations of and approaches to manifestations of (in)equity in the sociohistorical contexts in which they occur. Collectively, the chapters envision classrooms and educational institutions as sites both shaping and shaped by larger (trans)communal negotiations of being and belonging, in which individuals affirm and/or problematize essentialized and idealized nativeness and community membership. The volume, comprised of chapters contributed by a diverse array of researcher-practitioners living, working and/or studying around the globe, is intended to inform, empower and inspire stakeholders in language education to explore, potentially reimagine, and ultimately critically and practically transform, the communities in which they live, work and/or study.

Autonomy, Agency, and Identity in Teaching and Learning English as a Foreign Language

2018-06-01
Autonomy, Agency, and Identity in Teaching and Learning English as a Foreign Language

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  • Author: (Mark) Feng Teng
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 9811307288
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 138

This book discusses the importance of autonomy, agency, and identity in teaching and learning English as a foreign language, all of which are central themes in the educational domain. By linking theory with practice to appeal to researchers as well as classroom practitioners, it provides an overview of the theoretical constructs of autonomy, agency, and identity along with empirical studies that explore these constructs through life stories as told by English teachers and students. Key features include: • New ideas to inspire professionals involved in foreign language education. • Up-to-date information to showcase for English language educators how autonomy, agency, and identity can be conceptualized across various institutional, sociocultural, and political contexts.• A concise yet comprehensive review of the theoretical and practical issues characterizing English foreign language education today.

Motivation, Language Identity and the L2 Self

2009-01-12
Motivation, Language Identity and the L2 Self

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  • Author: Zoltán Dörnyei
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1847696759
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 377

Due to its theoretical and educational significance within the language learning process, the study of L2 motivation has been an important area of second language acquisition research for several decades. Over the last few years L2 motivation research has taken an exciting new turn by focusing increasingly on the language learner’s situated identity and various self-perceptions. As a result, the concept of L2 motivation is currently in the process of being radically reconceptualised and re-theorised in the context of contemporary notions of self and identity. With contributions by leading European, North American and Asian scholars, this volume brings together the first comprehensive anthology of key conceptual and empirical papers that mark this important paradigmatic shift.

Identity and Language Learning

2000
Identity and Language Learning

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  • Author: Bonny Norton
  • Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Ethnicity
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 210

This study looks at the process of learning a second language and in particular how changing identities of the learner effect this process. The text considers how language teachers can address the complex histories of language learners by integrating research, theory and classroom practice.

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Identity

2016-02-12
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Identity

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  • Author: Siân Preece
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317365240
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 645

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Identity provides a clear and comprehensive survey of the field of language and identity from an applied linguistics perspective. Forty-one chapters are organised into five sections covering: theoretical perspectives informing language and identity studies key issues for researchers doing language and identity studies categories and dimensions of identity identity in language learning contexts and among language learners future directions for language and identity studies in applied linguistics Written by specialists from around the world, each chapter will introduce a topic in language and identity studies, provide a concise and critical survey, in which the importance and relevance to applied linguists is explained and include further reading. The Routledge Handbook of Language and Identity is an essential purchase for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Linguistics, Applied Linguistics and TESOL. Advisory board: David Block (Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats/ Universitat de Lleida, Spain); John Joseph (University of Edinburgh); Bonny Norton (University of British Colombia, Canada).