Who Defines Me

2014-06-19
Who Defines Me

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  • Author: Eid Mohamed
  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • ISBN: 1443862037
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 170

Who Defines Me: Negotiating Identity in Language and Literature is a collection of insightful articles that represent an interdisciplinary study of identity. The articles start from the premise that identity is, and always has been, unstable and mutable; which is to say that identity is constructed and deconstructed and reconstructed – only to be deconstructed and reconstructed again, in turn to be deconstructed and reconstructed (and so on ad infinitum). Time and place are variables. So, too – as Who Defines Me underscores – are ethnicity, religion, politics and power, race and color, nationality, gender, culture, language, and socio-economic status. With all of these variables in mind, Who Defines Me focuses on language and literature as the portal through which identity is explored. The overarching rubrics under which the explorations are conducted are Arabs and Muslims, race identity in America, and language identity.

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.

Negotiation of Identities in Multilingual Contexts

2004
Negotiation of Identities in Multilingual Contexts

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  • Author: Aneta Pavlenko
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 9781853596469
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 364

This volume highlights the role of language ideologies in the process of negotiation of identities and shows that in different historical and social contexts different identities may be negotiable or non-negotiable.

Negotiating Identity in Modern Foreign Language Teaching

2019-10-17
Negotiating Identity in Modern Foreign Language Teaching

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  • Author: Matilde Gallardo
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • ISBN: 9783030277086
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

This edited book examines modern foreign language teachers who research their own and others’ experiences of identity construction in the context of living and teaching in UK institutions, primarily in the Higher Education sector. The book offers an insight into a key element of the educational and socio-political debate surrounding MFL in the UK: the teachers’ voices and their sense of agency in constructing their professional identities. The contributors use a combination of empirical research and personal reflection to generate knowledge about MFL teachers’ identity that can enhance how they are perceived in the social and educational establishments and raise awareness of key issues affecting the profession. This book will be of particular interest to language teachers, teacher trainers, applied linguists and students and scholars of modern foreign languages.

Teaching English as an International Language

2008
Teaching English as an International Language

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  • Author: Le Ha Phan
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1847690483
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 217

Drawing on both Western and Asian theoretical frameworks, this book showcases the complexity and sophistication of the negotiations that EIL (English as an international language) teachers have to make when their identities are challenged by values and practices that seem contradictory to their own.

Advances and Current Trends in Language Teacher Identity Research

2014-12-05
Advances and Current Trends in Language Teacher Identity Research

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  • Author: Yin Ling Cheung
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317686519
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 416

This book presents the latest research on understanding language teacher identity and development for both novice and experienced researchers and educators, and introduces non-experts in language teacher education to key topics in teacher identity research. It covers a wide range of backgrounds, themes, and subjects pertaining to language teacher identity and development. Some of these include the effects of apprenticeship in doctoral training on novice teacher identity; the impacts of mid-career redundancy on the professional identities of teachers; challenges faced by teachers in the construction of their professional identities; the emerging professional identity of pre-service teachers; teacher identity development of beginning teachers; the role of emotions in the professional identities of non-native English speaking teachers; the negotiation of professional identities by female academics. Advances and Current Trends in Language Teacher Identity Research will appeal to academics in ELT/TESOL/applied linguistics. It will also be useful to those who are non-experts in language teacher education, yet still need to know about theories and recent advances in the area due to varying reasons including their affiliation to a teacher training institute; needs to participate in projects on language teacher education; and teaching a course for pre-service and in-service language teachers.

Bordered Identities in Language, Literature, and Culture

2019-03-21
Bordered Identities in Language, Literature, and Culture

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  • Author: Mbuh Tennu Mbuh
  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • ISBN: 1527531791
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 239

Cameroon’s composite state of postcoloniality inevitably burdened it with a linguistic and pedagogic culture that changed the eager student into a centripetal mimic of the colonial imagination. Recent events in the country, especially relating to the Anglophone Problem, have spotlighted the need to revisit this space, which has been over-politicised into what Anglophone Cameroonians see as a state of hypnosis. Given the clash between postcolonial consciousness and the globalizing forces of late capitalism, a necessary meeting point had to be negotiated in linguistic and pedagogic contexts, to (re)affirm the identity problematic in Cameroon, and in the interpretation of colonial voices in literary texts. Bordered Identities in Language, Literature, and Culture: Readings on Cameroon and the Global Space offers a variegated reflection on these issues, and simultaneously responds to increasing demands to re-negotiate identity beyond mega frames of Empire, based on contextual data that combine indigenous and globalising imperatives.

Teaching for Transfer

2013-12-16
Teaching for Transfer

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  • Author: Anne McKeough
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1135444226
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 247

The transfer of learning is universally accepted as the ultimate aim of teaching. Facilitating knowledge transfer has perplexed educators and psychologists over time and across theoretical frameworks; it remains a central issue for today's practitioners and theorists. This volume examines the reasons for past failures and offers a reconceptualization of the notion of knowledge transfer, its problems and limitations, as well as its possibilities. Leading scholars outline programs of instruction that have effectively produced transfer at a variety of levels from kindergarten to university. They also explore a broad range of issues related to learning transfer including conceptual development, domain-specific knowledge, learning strategies, communities of learners, and disposition. The work of these contributors epitomizes theory-practice integration and enables the reader to review the reciprocal relation between the two that is so essential to good theorizing and effective teaching.

Language Teacher Educator Identity

2021-03-18
Language Teacher Educator Identity

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  • Author: Gary Barkhuizen
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1108875483
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 151

The author examines who language teacher educators are in the field of language teaching and learning. This includes a description of the different types of language teacher educators working in a range of professional and institutional contexts, an analysis of the reflections of a group of experienced English teacher educators working in Colombia and enrolled in a doctoral program to continue their professional development, and an exposition of the work that language teacher educators do, particularly in the domains of pedagogy, research, and service and leadership (institutional and community). All of this is done with the aim of understanding the identities that language teacher educators negotiate and are ascribed in their working contexts. The author emphasizes the need for research to pay attention to the lives and work of language teacher educators, and offers forty research questions as an indication of possible future research directions.

Language, Identity and Contemporary Society

2018-11-30
Language, Identity and Contemporary Society

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  • Author: Rajesh Kumar
  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • ISBN: 1527522679
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 239

This book explores the instrumentality of language in constructing identity in contemporary society. The processes of globalization, hyper-mobility, rapid urbanization, and the increasing desire of local populations to be linked to the global community have created a pressing need to reconfigure identity in this new world order. Following the digital revolution, both traditional and new media are dissolving linguistic boundaries. The centrality of language in organizing communities and groups cannot be overstated: our social order is developed alongside our linguistic allegiance, shared narratives, collective memories, and common social history. Keeping in mind the fluidity of identity, the book brings together fourteen chapters providing cultural and social perspectives. The ideas reflected here draw on a range of disciplines, such as psychology, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, the politics of language, and linguistic identity.