▪ Abstract While continuing to uphold the major aims set out in the first generation of
language socialization studies, recent research examines the particularities of language …

Looking back at the past 15 years in the field of second language acquisition (SLA), the
authors select and discuss several important developments. One is the impact of various …

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

Although formal and informal socialization into more than one language, culture, and
community has been a common experience throughout human history, systematic research …

This book examines how Russian-speaking adoptees in three US families actively shape
opportunities for language learning and identity construction in everyday interactions. It …

This ongoing project seeks to investigate the impact, inside and outside of class, of
instruction focused on developing learner awareness of social-networking site (SNS) use in …

In this paper we explore the influences of the telecollaborative learning environment on the
development of L2 pragmatic competence in foreign language learning from a sociocultural …

In recent years increasing numbers of researchers have begun to investigate second
language acquisition within the socio-cultural context in which it occurs using qualitative …

This longitudinal, ethnographic case study examines the language socialization
experiences of Hari, a Punjabi-speaking English language learner integrated in a …

The most important challenges humans face-identity, life, death, war, peace, the fate of our
planet-are manifested and debated through language. This book provides the intellectual …