The Complexity of Identity and Interaction in Language Education

ISBN-13: 9781788927420 Publisher: Channel View Publications Publication date: 08/07/2020 Series: Psychology of Language Learning and Teaching , #7 Pages: 312 Product dimensions: 6.15(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.75(d) This book addresses two critical calls pertaining to language education. Firstly, for attention to be paid to the transdisciplinary nature and complexity of learner identity and interaction in the classroom and secondly, for the need to attend to conceptualizations of and approaches to manifestations of (in)equity in the sociohistorical contexts in which they occur. Collectively, the chapters envision classrooms and educational institutions as sites both shaping and shaped by larger (trans)communal negotiations of being and belonging, in which individuals affirm and/or problematize essentialized and idealized nativeness and community membership. The volume, comprised of chapters contributed by a diverse array of researcher-practitioners living, working and/or studying around the glo