Identity and Language Learning: Extending the Conversation

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Multilingual Matters, Sep 27, 2013 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 216 pages
This second edition of Norton's classic text on language learning and identity will bring her ground-breaking ideas to a new generation of students, teachers and researchers. Featuring a comprehensive Introduction and an Afterword by Claire Kramsch, this new edition integrates research, theory and classroom practice. The implications for teaching and teacher education are profound.
 

Contents

Fact and Fiction in Language Learning
41
Researching Identity and Language Learning
58
The World of Adult Immigrant Language Learners
76
Old Heads on Young Shoulders
97
Mothers Migration and Language Learning
124
Second Language Acquisition Theory Revisited
146
Claiming the Right to Speak in Classrooms and Communities
170
Claire Kramsch
192
References
202
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203
Index
211
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Bonny Norton is a Professor and Distinguished University Scholar in the Department of Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia, Canada. She is committed to social change through the power of ideas and the integration of theory, research, and practice. In 2010 she was the inaugural recipient of the ?Senior Researcher Award? by the Second Language Research group of AERA (American Educational Research Association) and in 2012 was inducted as an AERA Fellow.

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