TheLanguage of Adult Immigrants : : Agency in the Making / / Elizabeth R. Miller.
This book is the first to explore the constitution of language learner agency by drawing on performativity theory, an approach that remains on the periphery of second language research. Though many scholars have drawn on poststructuralism to theorize learner identity in non-essentialist terms, most...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New Perspectives on Language and Education
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (184 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Agency in Second Language Research
- 2. Theories of Agency and Language Learning
- 3. Analyzing Agency Constructs in Interview Discourse
- 4. Agency and Responsibility: Positioning Self in Subject-Predicate Constructs
- 5. Stance and Subjectivity: Evaluating Agentive Capacity
- 6. Performing Agency and Responsibility in Reported Speech
- 7. Local Production of Ideology and Discursive Agency
- 8. Conclusion
- Appendix
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index