Identity and Language Learning - Brossura

Norton, Bonny

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ISBN 10: 1408251868 ISBN 13: 9781408251867

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2013

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Under what conditions do language learners speak? How is a learner's changing identity related to the process of language learning? And what are the implications of learner identities for the English language teacher?

This new edition of Bonny Norton's groundbreaking classic work draws on a longitudinal case study of immigrant women in Canada, suggesting that second language acquisition theory has not given sufficient attention to relations of power between language learners and target language speakers.

This revised and updated new edition takes into account developments in sociocultural research in language learning, and addresses timely topics such as

• globalization and learner identity
• identity and digital learners
• identity and the language teacher
• identity and literacy 

Integrating research, theory, and classroom practice, this book will be of interest to students, teachers, and researchers in the fields of second language learning and teaching, TESOL, applied linguistics and language planning.

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Since the publication of the first, pathbreaking edition of this now-classic text, identity has become a central term through which applied linguists have been able to explore the changing, complex and contradictory struggles we encounter as we learn languages. This book has become one of the most significant of the last decade, and will continue to provoke thought, research and discussion for another decade. A key text for any applied linguist.

 

Alastair Pennycook, University of Technology, Sydney

 

Uniting impeccable scholarship and an enduring passion for social justice, Bonny Norton's 2000 book Identity and Language Learning is republished here with a magisterial new Introduction by the author and an inspirational Afterword by Claire Kramsch. The book demonstrates anew the intrinsic power of Norton’s constructs of investment, imagined identities and imagined communities, and the paradigm-shifting impact of her theory of identity on an ever-expanding set of questions, contexts, and interdisciplinary approaches to research and teaching in second language education and applied linguistics. 

Nancy Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania

 

The publication of Bonny Norton’s Identity and Language Learning in 2000 was a landmark moment in the field of additional/second language learning.  The countless discussions in journal articles, research reports and PhD theses in the past decade testify to the power of her multi-faceted and generative ideas. I have no doubt that this revised edition will be on the ‘must read’ list of anyone concerned with additional/second language learning and language education more generally.

Constant Leung, King’s College, University of London

 

 

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. Professor 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, and her sociological construct of investment is an important complement to psychological theories of motivation. Professor Norton’s groundbreaking theories continue to give rise to further research by both emerging and established scholars internationally. The implications for teaching and teacher education are profound.

 

Now including a new, comprehensive Introduction as well as a new Afterword by Claire Kramsch, this second edition also 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?

 

Integrating research, theory, and classroom practice, the book is essential to students, teachers, and researchers in the fields of language learning and teaching, TESOL, applied linguistics and literacy.

 

 

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. Her website can be found at http://www.educ.ubc.ca/faculty/norton/

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1408251868
• ISBN 13: 9781408251867
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 240