Theorizing and analyzing agency in second language learning : interdisciplinary approaches / edited by Ping Deters, Xuesong (Andy) Gao, Elizabeth R. Miller and Gergana Vitanova.

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Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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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