TY  - BOOK
AU  - Deters,Ping
AU  - Gao,Xuesong
AU  - Miller,Elizabeth R.
AU  - Vitanova,Gergana
TI  - Theorizing and analyzing agency in second language learning: interdisciplinary approaches 
T2  - Second Language Acquisition
SN  - 9781783092901
AV  - P118 .T446 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Bristol, Buffalo ; Toronto
PB  - Multilingual Matters
KW  - Second language acquisition
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Interdisciplinary approach in education
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; 2; 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 AgencyPart 2 Analytical Approaches to Investigating Agency; 7 Performing and Accounting Language and Identity: Agency as Actors-in-(inter)action-with-tools; 8 'He's the Star!': Positioning as a Tool of Analysis to Investigate Agency and Access to Learning Opportunities in a Classroom Environment; 9 '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 Learners12 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; 2; b
N2  - This book showcases how language learner agency can be understood and researched from varying perspectives by providing, for the first time, a collection of diverse approaches in one volume. The volume is organised into three main sections:the first sections offers an introduction to varying theoretical approaches to agency; the second section presents analyses of agency in a variety of empirical studies; and the third section focuses on the pedagogical implications of data-based studies of agency. The volume includes the work of researchers working in languages including English (ESL and EFL)
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