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Identity, Motivation and Autonomy in Language Learning

Author : Garold Murray
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1847694985
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Book Synopsis Identity, Motivation and Autonomy in Language Learning by : Garold Murray

Download or read book Identity, Motivation and Autonomy in Language Learning written by Garold Murray and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Texts

Author : Jim Cummins
Publisher : Trentham Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781858564784
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (647 download)

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Book Synopsis Identity Texts by : Jim Cummins

Download or read book Identity Texts written by Jim Cummins and published by Trentham Books Limited. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim Cummins is Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Curriculum, Teaching and Learning department at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

Negotiating Identity in Modern Foreign Language Teaching

Author : Matilde Gallardo
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783030277086
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (77 download)

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Book Synopsis Negotiating Identity in Modern Foreign Language Teaching by : Matilde Gallardo

Download or read book Negotiating Identity in Modern Foreign Language Teaching written by Matilde Gallardo and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Linguistic Justice

Author : April Baker-Bell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351376705
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Book Synopsis Linguistic Justice by : April Baker-Bell

Download or read book Linguistic Justice written by April Baker-Bell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together theory, research, and practice to dismantle Anti-Black Linguistic Racism and white linguistic supremacy, this book provides ethnographic snapshots of how Black students navigate and negotiate their linguistic and racial identities across multiple contexts. By highlighting the counterstories of Black students, Baker-Bell demonstrates how traditional approaches to language education do not account for the emotional harm, internalized linguistic racism, or consequences these approaches have on Black students' sense of self and identity. This book presents Anti-Black Linguistic Racism as a framework that explicitly names and richly captures the linguistic violence, persecution, dehumanization, and marginalization Black Language-speakers endure when using their language in schools and in everyday life. To move toward Black linguistic liberation, Baker-Bell introduces a new way forward through Antiracist Black Language Pedagogy, a pedagogical approach that intentionally and unapologetically centers the linguistic, cultural, racial, intellectual, and self-confidence needs of Black students. This volume captures what Antiracist Black Language Pedagogy looks like in classrooms while simultaneously illustrating how theory, research, and practice can operate in tandem in pursuit of linguistic and racial justice. A crucial resource for educators, researchers, professors, and graduate students in language and literacy education, writing studies, sociology of education, sociolinguistics, and critical pedagogy, this book features a range of multimodal examples and practices through instructional maps, charts, artwork, and stories that reflect the urgent need for antiracist language pedagogies in our current social and political climate.

Language and Culture

Author : David Nunan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135153906
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Language and Culture written by David Nunan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-05-07 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This state-of-the-art exploration of language, culture, and identity is orchestrated through prominent scholars’ and teachers’ narratives, each weaving together three elements: a personal account based on one or more memorable or critical incidents that occurred in the course of learning or using a second or foreign language; an interpretation of the incidents highlighting their impact in terms of culture, identity, and language; the connections between the experiences and observations of the author and existing literature on language, culture and identity. What makes this book stand out is the way in which authors meld traditional ‘academic’ approaches to inquiry with their own personalized voices. This opens a window on different ways of viewing and doing research in Applied Linguistics and TESOL. What gives the book its power is the compelling nature of the narratives themselves. Telling stories is a fundamental way of representing and making sense of the human condition. These stories unpack, in an accessible but rigorous fashion, complex socio-cultural constructs of culture, identity, the self and other, and reflexivity, and offer a way into these constructs for teachers, teachers in preparation and neophyte researchers. Contributors from around the world give the book broad and international appeal.

Criticality, Teacher Identity, and (In)equity in English Language Teaching

Author : Bedrettin Yazan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319729209
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Book Synopsis Criticality, Teacher Identity, and (In)equity in English Language Teaching by : Bedrettin Yazan

Download or read book Criticality, Teacher Identity, and (In)equity in English Language Teaching written by Bedrettin Yazan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-26 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume, envisioned through a postmodern and poststructural lens, represents an effort to destabilize the normalized “assumption” in the discursive field of English language teaching (ELT) (Pennycook, 2007), critically-oriented and otherwise, that identity, experience, privilege-marginalization, (in)equity, and interaction, can and should be apprehended and attended to via categories embedded within binaries (e.g., NS/NNS; NEST/NNEST). The volume provides space for authors and readers alike to explore fluidly critical-practical approaches to identity, experience, (in)equity, and interaction envisioned through and beyond binaries, and to examine the implications such approaches hold for attending to the contextual complexity of identity and interaction, in and beyond the classroom. The volume additionally serves to prompt criticality in ELT towards reflexivity, conceptual clarity and congruence, and dialogue.

Talking Indian

Author : Jenny L. Davis
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816538158
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Book Synopsis Talking Indian by : Jenny L. Davis

Download or read book Talking Indian written by Jenny L. Davis and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Beatrice Medicine Award In south-central Oklahoma and much of “Indian Country,” using an Indigenous language is colloquially referred to as “talking Indian.” Among older Chickasaw community members, the phrase is used more often than the name of the specific language, Chikashshanompa’ or Chickasaw. As author Jenny L. Davis explains, this colloquialism reflects the strong connections between languages and both individual and communal identities when talking as an Indian is intimately tied up with the heritage language(s) of the community, even as the number of speakers declines. Today a tribe of more than sixty thousand members, the Chickasaw Nation was one of the Native nations removed from their homelands to Oklahoma between 1837 and 1838. According to Davis, the Chickasaw’s dispersion from their lands contributed to their disconnection from their language over time: by 2010 the number of Chickasaw speakers had radically declined to fewer than seventy-five speakers. In Talking Indian, Davis—a member of the Chickasaw Nation—offers the first book-length ethnography of language revitalization in a U.S. tribe removed from its homelands. She shows how in the case of the Chickasaw Nation, language programs are intertwined with economic growth that dramatically reshape the social realities within the tribe. She explains how this economic expansion allows the tribe to fund various language-learning forums, with the additional benefit of creating well-paid and socially significant roles for Chickasaw speakers. Davis also illustrates how language revitalization efforts are impacted by the growing trend of tribal citizens relocating back to the Nation.

The Power of Identity and Ideology in Language Learning

Author : Peter I. De Costa
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319302116
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)

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Book Synopsis The Power of Identity and Ideology in Language Learning by : Peter I. De Costa

Download or read book The Power of Identity and Ideology in Language Learning written by Peter I. De Costa and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Through the Language Glass

Author : Guy Deutscher
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1429970111
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Through the Language Glass written by Guy Deutscher and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterpiece of linguistics scholarship, at once erudite and entertaining, confronts the thorny question of how—and whether—culture shapes language and language, culture Linguistics has long shied away from claiming any link between a language and the culture of its speakers: too much simplistic (even bigoted) chatter about the romance of Italian and the goose-stepping orderliness of German has made serious thinkers wary of the entire subject. But now, acclaimed linguist Guy Deutscher has dared to reopen the issue. Can culture influence language—and vice versa? Can different languages lead their speakers to different thoughts? Could our experience of the world depend on whether our language has a word for "blue"? Challenging the consensus that the fundaments of language are hard-wired in our genes and thus universal, Deutscher argues that the answer to all these questions is—yes. In thrilling fashion, he takes us from Homer to Darwin, from Yale to the Amazon, from how to name the rainbow to why Russian water—a "she"—becomes a "he" once you dip a tea bag into her, demonstrating that language does in fact reflect culture in ways that are anything but trivial. Audacious, delightful, and field-changing, Through the Language Glass is a classic of intellectual discovery.

Identity and Language Learning

Author : Bonny Norton
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 178309057X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Identity and Language Learning written by Bonny Norton and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2013-10-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Identity Through a Language Lens

Author : Kamila Ciepiela
Publisher : Lodz Studies in Language
ISBN 13 : 9783631616024
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Book Synopsis Identity Through a Language Lens by : Kamila Ciepiela

Download or read book Identity Through a Language Lens written by Kamila Ciepiela and published by Lodz Studies in Language. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: «This collection of articles is a sociolinguistic response to the recent explosion of scholarly interest in issues of identity. Identity is central to all human beings as we are all concerned with how to conceive of ourselves, present ourselves and comprehend our relationships with others. The book tackles the problem of how personal identity is made visible and intelligible to others through language, and how this may be constrained. Part One, Emblematic identities, focuses on the construction of self-definitions based on various forms of group identities, including national and ethnic ones. Part Two, Multicultural Identities, looks at negotiation of identities in multicultural contexts involving relations of power, drawing on examples from Europe and the Americas. Finally, Part Three, Emergent Identities, collects empirical studies based on a close reading of texts in which identities are being articulated and negotiated.» (Hanna Pułaczewska, University of Regensburg)

Learner Identity and Learner Beliefs in EFL Writing

Author : Olga Majchrzak
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319695606
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Book Synopsis Learner Identity and Learner Beliefs in EFL Writing by : Olga Majchrzak

Download or read book Learner Identity and Learner Beliefs in EFL Writing written by Olga Majchrzak and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the concept of learner writer identity in the context of foreign language writing. The author demonstrates that the process of writing in a foreign language is much more complex and personal than many writing instructors may assume. The book’s theoretical chapters address such concepts as bilingualism, the process of L2 writing, and identity in L2 writing. The book’s empirical section discusses the students’ views on writing in L1 and in L2, the students’ writing processes in both languages, and the students’ identities in L1 and L2 writing. It is shown that writing in L2 poses problems of a linguistic nature; however, for the advanced EFL learners writing in L2 also creates opportunities they would never have when composing in their mother tongue.

Identity and Pragmatic Language Use

Author : Yoko Nogami
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501504215
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis Identity and Pragmatic Language Use by : Yoko Nogami

Download or read book Identity and Pragmatic Language Use written by Yoko Nogami and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ELF (English as a lingua franca) research counters the monocentric view of English based on norms of native speakers of English, and supports any usages reflecting sociopragmatic and pragmalinguistic reality of ELF communication. Such an approach empowers any speakers of English to contemplate their own varieties of English as legitimate, providing them greater options for positive self-identification. Based on qualitative and interpretive methodology, this book illustrates how Japanese L2 English users establish identities related to L2 English as part of their multiple identities, and how they explore new identity options through ELF. Moreover, the author demonstrates how power relations relating to English language are constructed through the participants’ experiences in ELF interactions. Also, analysis of the data reveals that to what degree the Japanese L2 English users wish to affiliate with particular groups in ELF interactions with people from diverse cultural background. Because of the multidisciplinary nature of the study, this book will appeal to a broad audience such as scholars and students who are interested in further understanding of identity and sociocultural issues involved in intercultural communication.

Identity and Pragmatic Language Use

Author : Yoko Nogami
Publisher : De Gruyter Mouton
ISBN 13 : 9781501512131
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (121 download)

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Book Synopsis Identity and Pragmatic Language Use by : Yoko Nogami

Download or read book Identity and Pragmatic Language Use written by Yoko Nogami and published by De Gruyter Mouton. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ELF (English as a lingua franca) research counters the monocentric view of English based on norms of native speakers of English, and supports any usages reflecting sociopragmatic and pragmalinguistic reality of ELF communication. Such an approach empowers any speakers of English to contemplate their own varieties of English as legitimate, providing them greater options for positive self-identification. Based on qualitative and interpretive methodology, this book illustrates how Japanese L2 English users establish identities related to L2 English as part of their multiple identities, and how they explore new identity options through ELF. Moreover, the author demonstrates how power relations relating to English language are constructed through the participants' experiences in ELF interactions. Also, analysis of the data reveals that to what degree the Japanese L2 English users wish to affiliate with particular groups in ELF interactions with people from diverse cultural background. Because of the multidisciplinary nature of the study, this book will appeal to a broad audience such as scholars and students who are interested in further understanding of identity and sociocultural issues involved in intercultural communication.

Youth, Language, and Identity

Author : Diane Gérin-Lajoie
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
ISBN 13 : 1551303957
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (513 download)

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Book Synopsis Youth, Language, and Identity by : Diane Gérin-Lajoie

Download or read book Youth, Language, and Identity written by Diane Gérin-Lajoie and published by Canadian Scholars’ Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a path-breaking examination of identity construction among minority-language youth. Based on a three-year study at two English-language high schools in the Montreal area, it builds on Diane Gérin-Lajoie's previous work on Francophone minority identity in Ontario and extends her analysis to Canada's other official language minority: anglophones living in Quebec. The book begins with an overview of the social and educational reality of Quebec's anglophone minority, and then presents the findings on students' language practices. The central chapters sketch identity portraits of the study's participants, and the later chapters pursue analyses of the themes raised by the study. The result is an original contribution to the understanding of language and identity that will be of interest to school administrators and teachers working in minority-language communities in Canada, and to scholars working on issues of minorities in the social sciences.

What Is This Thing Called Language?

Author : David Nunan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350308013
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis What Is This Thing Called Language? by : David Nunan

Download or read book What Is This Thing Called Language? written by David Nunan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by eminent linguist David Nunan, this concise text immerses readers in the complex, curious and continually evolving phenomenon that is at the centre of everything we do: language. It can be fascinating, puzzling and entertaining – and sometimes all of these at the same time. Featuring entertaining anecdotes and interesting examples throughout, this book introduces readers to the foundations of language, namely its sounds, words and grammar, before illustrating how language is used in different ways in a variety of contexts. Fully updated and revised for the second edition, it covers a wide range of topics, including language variation and culture, second language acquisition and bilingualism. Students, teachers and non-specialists alike will enjoy this engaging and 'un-put-down-able' introduction to language and linguistics. Assuming no prior knowledge of applied or theoretical linguistics, it will appeal to anyone with an interest in language. New to this Edition: - Illustrated with examples taken from a range of different languages - New content on language and culture, language variation, second language acquisition, bilingualism and the impact of globalization on language use

English in China

Author : Emily Tsz Yan Fong
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000370879
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book English in China written by Emily Tsz Yan Fong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-29 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores Chinese identity through the lens of both the Chinese and English languages. Until the twentieth century, English was a language associated with capitalists and "military aggressors" in China. However, the massive progression of globalisation in China following the 1980s has transformed the language into an important tool for China’s modernisation. Regardless of the role English plays in China, there has always been a fear there that the spread of culture(s) associated with English would lead to weakening of the Chinese identity. This fear resulted in the development of the ti-yong principle: "Chinese learning for essence (ti), Western learning for utility (yong)." Fong’s book aims to enhance understanding of the ti-yong dichotomy in relation to people’s sense of being Chinese in China, the penetration of English into non-English speaking societies, the resultant tensions in people’s sense of personal and national identity, and their place in the world. Using Q methodology, the book presents observations based on data collected from four participant groups, namely high school and university students, teachers and parents in China, to investigate their perspectives on the status and roles of English, as well as those of Chinese. Considering the growing international interest in China, this volume will appeal to readers interested in China’s contemporary society in general, its language, culture and identity. It will be a useful resource for academics, researchers and students in the field of applied linguistics, language education and Chinese cultural studies and can also be adopted as a reference book for undergraduate courses relating to language, identity and culture.