LING 4P10 Chapter Notes - Chapter .: Multilingualism, Reductionism, Legitimate Peripheral Participation
26 Feb 2016
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Sla theorists need a comprehensive theory of identity that integrates the individual language learner and the larger social world. Highlights the multiple positions from which lang learners can speak and how sometimes marginalized learners can appropriate more desirable identities with respect to the target language community. Sla theorists need to address how relations of power in the social world affect learners access to the target language community. Identity: references how a person understands his relationship to the world and how that relationship is constructed across time and space and how the person understands possibilities for the future. Concerned about the ways in which opportunities to practice speaking reading and writing, acknowledged as central to the sla process are socially constructed in formal and informal sites of language learning. Instrumental motivation: the desire of lang learners to learn an l2 for utilitarian purposes such as employment.
