Identity and Language Learning Extending the Conversation

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 multip...

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Main Author: Norton, Bonny
Format: eBook Book
Language:English
Published: Bristol Channel View Publications 04.10.2013
Multilingual Matters
Edition:2
Subjects:
Education
EDUCATION / General
Language & Literature
Language and languages
Language and languages > Study and teaching
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching
Second language acquisition
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
Sociology
Study and teaching
ISBN:1783090545, 9781783090549, 9781783090556, 1783090553
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Summary: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.This book is open access under a CC BY ND licence.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-210) and index
ISBN:1783090545
9781783090549
9781783090556
1783090553
DOI:10.21832/9781783090563