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Theorizing and Analyzing Agency in Second Language Learning: Interdisciplinary Approaches

✍ Scribed by Ping Deters (editor); Xuesong (Andy) Gao (editor); Elizabeth R. Miller (editor); Gergana Vitanova (editor)


Publisher
Multilingual Matters
Year
2014
Tongue
English
Leaves
294
Category
Library

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✦ Synopsis


Through several unique perspectives and contexts, this volume contributes to current understanding of agency in second language learning. It includes chapters discussing theoretical, analytical and pedagogical approaches, and will serve as a key reference for researchers of language learning and teaching.

✦ Table of Contents


Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction to Theorizing and Analyzing Agency in Second Language Learning: Interdisciplinary Approaches
Part 1 Theoretical Approaches to Agency
2 Structure, Agency, Individualization and the Critical Realist Challenge
3 Dialogical View on Language Learners’ Agency: Connecting Intrapersonal with Interpersonal
4 Examining Agency in (Second) Language Socialization Research
5 Theorizing Young Language Learner Agency through the Lens of Multilingual Repertoires: A Sociocultural Perspective
6 Sociological Approaches to Second Language Learning and Agency
Part 2 Analytical Approaches to Investigating Agency
7 Performing and Accounting Language and Identity: Agency as Actors-in-(inter)action-with-tools
8 β€˜He’s the Star!’: Positioning as a Tool of Analysis to Investigate Agency and Access to Learning Opportunities in a Classroom Environment
9 β€˜Crossing’ into the L2 and Back: Agency and Native-like Ultimate Attainment by a Post-critical-period Learner
10 Analyzing Learner Agency in Second Language Learning: A Place-based Approach
Part 3 Pedagogical Practices for Agency
11 Agency, Anxiety and Activity: Understanding the Classroom Behavior of EFL Learners
12 Verbalizing in the Second Language Classroom: Exploring the Role of Agency in the Internalization of Grammatical Categories
13 Critical Discourse Analysis in a Medical English Course: Examining Learner Agency through Student Written Reflections
14 Toward a Relationship-oriented Framework: Revisiting Agency By Listening to the Voices of Children
15 Afterword
Author Index
Subject Index


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