With the goal of illuminating how identity and cognition are in tension in classroom activity,
we examine how one second‐language learner answers questions in a mainstream second …

This article briefly reviews an increasingly large body of research that seeks to understand
the relationship between language-learner identities and their sociocultural worlds. Rather …

This paper explores the construction of collective identity by students in an academic
learning environment, and shows how such collective identity may hinder or slow down …

This article analyzes illustrative classroom events documented during an ethnographic study
of bilingual classrooms in a “high‐achieving” school. Through a performativity lens that …

In this study, I examine the role of the learner in second language learning from a social
constructionist perspective. In so doing, I view the learner as a complex social being, whose …

Background/Context Inclusion of African immigrant youth voices in educational and research
discourses remains rare despite the steady growth of this population in the United States …

* In a recent article on adolescent Chinese immigrants learning ESL, McKay and Wong
(1996) call for a new conception of identity that entails" radically redefining the second …

This collection of research has attempted to capture the essence and promise embodied in
the concept of “identity” and built a bridge to the realm of second language studies …

This article addresses the relationship between educational theory—as manifested in
particular ideologies of teaching and learning—and classroom practice. Based on an …

Even though it has arguably been an unofficial center of attention for many years, the current
social turn in the second language acquisition and applied linguistics (Halliday, 1993; …