There has been a notable increase in the number of publications discussing and debating issues surrounding Second Language Acquisition (SLA). In The Social Turn in Second Language Acquisition David Block critically examines the key assumptions behind this research. He unpacks and analyses the way the key components of SLA are commonly understood, asking what is meant by the terms second, language and acquisition.
There has been a notable increase in the number of publications discussing and debating issues surrounding Second Language Acquisition (SLA). In The S...
Second Language Identities examines how identity is an issue in different second language learning contexts. It begins with a detailed presentation of what has become a popular approach to identity in the social sciences (including applied linguistics) today, one that is inspired in poststructuralist thought and is associated with the work of authors such as Anthony Giddens, Zygmunt Bauman, Chris Weedon, Judith Butler and Stuart Hall.
It then examines how in early SLA research focussing on affective variables, identity was an issue, lurking in the wings but not coming to the...
Second Language Identities examines how identity is an issue in different second language learning contexts. It begins with a detailed prese...
