Language Learners' Sociocultural Positions in the L2

A Narrative Approach

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12701974
AutoresCristina Solé (0000-0002-6104-8345, University College London, autor de correspondencia), Cristina Ros i Solé (0000-0001-5041-5456)
Año2007
Volumen7
Número3
Páginas203-216
Fecha de publicación2007-08-15
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLanguage and Intercultural Communication (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1470-8477 • E-ISSN: 1747-759X
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.2167/laic203.0
OpenAlexW2159862804
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas19
Referencias citadas20

This paper investigates language learners' negotiation of their social selves in the target language community of practice from a narrative perspective. In order to do this, I draw from post-structuralist and sociocultural approaches to language learning and L2 identity (e.g. Belz, 2002; Kinginger, 2004; Norton, 1997, 2000; Pavlenko, 2002, 2003) which assume that learners do not communicate in a social vacuum but acquire new roles, positions and vantage points from which they negotiate their L2 selves. More specifically, I argue the need for investigating language learners' negotiations of legitimacy and agency in the L2 (Kramsch, 2003; Lantolf & Pavlenko, 2000) within a narrative perspective. As language learning and use occur socially, language learners need to be studied as negotiators in the relations of power that are established when entering into contact with the L2. Acquiring ‘audibility’ (Miller, 2004), the ‘right to speech’ (Bourdieu, 1977) and acquiring new positions in the L2 (Davies & Harré, 1990; Kramsch, 2003) are some of the issues that the L2 user faces when interacting in the target community of practice. The methodological framework put forward is exemplified through the study of several language learners' anecdotes extracted from a corpus of 20 learner interviews

Agency (philosophy · Comprehension approach · First language · Language acquisition · Language education · Linguistics · Mathematics education · Narrative · Negotiation · Pedagogy · Sociocultural evolution · Sociocultural perspective · Sociology · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Second Language Learning and Teaching