This chapter focuses on the link between positioning theory and applied linguistics research.
The chapter explains how various social and poststructural concepts in applied linguistics …

Research on language teacher agency and language teacher emotions has demonstrated
that both are central components of teacher identity and practice. However, few researchers …

Abstract Language learning and teaching (LLT) materials—like teacher‐created handouts,
textbooks, and overhead transparencies—are central elements of language classrooms …

Essentials of SLA for L2 Teachers: A Transdisciplinary Framework presents an accessible
and comprehensive account of current understandings of second language acquisition …

This study examines statements about language attitudes expressed by bilingually raised
Germans of Vietnamese origin during language biographical interviews in search of specific …

Recent studies have demonstrated how teachers can draw on students' multilingual
resources in teaching English writing, even in monolingually oriented policy settings …

This paper compares how the neoliberal self and the agentive language learner self have
been conceptualized in the scholarly literature. It shows that both selves are construed as …

This article draws on qualitative research conducted with graduates of several cohorts of a
TESOL program for international students, and discusses teacher identity and teacher …

Narrative analysis has become one of the most important methodological tools for the study
of processes of uprooting, relocation, adaptation to new surroundings and linguistic realities …

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 theoretical …