Recently, the field of second language acquisition (SLA) has seen the growing impact of
social context on second language learning, which has been called by Block a “social …

This book is the first to explore the constitution of language learner agency by drawing on
performativity theory, an approach that remains on the periphery of second language …

The massive shift in migration patterns brought about by globalization has heavily impacted
the language learning experience of adolescent immigrant learners. Given these changes …

Departing from the view that learner beliefs are mental traits and in keeping with the
discursive turn in SLA (Kalaja, 1995, 2003; Young, 2009), I argue that SLA learner beliefs …

In this book I present a critical ethnographic school-based case study that focuses on the
language learning experiences of five Asian immigrant students. These students were …

This study examined classroom discourse in two Spanish language courses for Spanish-
English bilingual students at a large university in central Texas, in order to investigate the …

This article considers language learner agency from a poststructuralist perspective, focusing
on how agency is discursively constituted as individuals position themselves and are …

This article explores the notion of agency in language learning and use as discursively,
historically, and socially mediated. It further explores how agency can be understood as …

Researchers have identified immigration and marginalization as two processes that impact
older immigrants' experience of aging in the US Our paper draws on 42 interviews with a …

Abstract English as a second language or ESL instruction is said to be for students who
have moved to the United States (or Canada) from another country and temporarily need …