This interdisciplinary book examines the interactional management of emotionality in
second language autobiographical interview research. Taking a discursive constructionist …

Based on participant observation in a California English as a Second Language family
literacy program, this ethnographic study examines how the complexly gendered life …

This book is a powerful narrative of how six women experienced their lives alongside their
desire to overcome the challenging and empowering nature of the English language. The …

The central theme of this book is the ambiguities and tensions teachers face as they attempt
to position themselves in ways that legitimize them as language teachers, and as English …

Table 2.1 Conceptions of identity/self and agency 43 Table 3.1 Initial research design 69
Table 3.2 Participants in phase one 70 Table 3.3 Participants in phase two 70 Table 3.4 …

Presenting a range of data obtained from secondary schools in the UK and US, this path-
breaking book explores the role played by language in constructing sexual identities …

This study investigates subject pronominal expression in second language Chinese and
compares learner usage with patterns found in their first language. The results show that (a) …

Based on a year-long, qualitative study of five East Asian women, pre-service teachers
enrolled in US Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) teacher …

This paper advances our conceptualization of second language (L2) learning as gendered
practices through a narrative inquiry into two Chinese female students' experiences of …

Informed by a social and critical turn of reading practices and a poststructuralist paradigm of
gender, this study delved into the commonly held belief that reading and language learning …