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8%OFFBonny Norton - Identity and Language Learning: Extending the Conversation - 9781783090549 - V9781783090549
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Identity and Language Learning: Extending the Conversation

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Description for Identity and Language Learning: Extending the Conversation Paperback. .
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Channel View Publications Ltd
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783090549
SKU
V9781783090549
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About Bonny Norton
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 a Senior Researcher Awarda by the Second ... Read more

Reviews for Identity and Language Learning: Extending the Conversation
In sum, this book is of great value to readers who are familiar with Norton's work as well as to those who are encountering it for the first time. For graduate students, this book is a must-read, because it provides initial knowledge about identity research and a good example of narrative inquiry. For researchers and educators, this second edition is ... Read more

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