In this review article on identity, language learning, and social change, we argue that
contemporary poststructuralist theories of language, identity, and power offer new …

This study discusses how the shifting teaching context via globalization generates new
demands for English language teachers, and how teachers' emotional responses to this shift …

Social aspects of second language acquisition (SLA) and the contexts in which people
attempt to learn and use languages and seek to become integrated within new and …

In this ground breaking new book David Block proposes a new working definition of social
class in applied linguistics. Traditionally, research on language and identity has focused on …

Contextualized in the debate on the (mis) use of habitus in educational research, the present
study addresses two research questions:(a) What are the different functions that habitus (ie …

* Winner of the 2019 AAAL First Book Award* Racialized Identities in Second Language
Learning: Speaking Blackness in Brazil provides a critical overview and original …

This state-of-the-art review is based on the fundamental idea that political economy should
be adopted as a frame for research and discussion in applied linguistics as part of a general …

Using the methods of critical discourse analysis, we examine California Proposition 227,
English Language in Public Schools (1998), and its repeal measure, Proposition 58, the …

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 focus of this paper is to explore the students' problems in answering the TOEFL (Test of
English as a Foreign Language). TOEFL is a type of language testing to reveal the students' …