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Authenticity across Languages and Cultures
This volume centres around concepts of personal and cultural authenticity as they play out in various contexts of foreign language teaching and learning worldwide. The chapters cover a wide range of contexts and disciplines, including both theoretical and empirical work; together they comprise both a rigorous analysis of authenticity in language teaching and a step away from notions of native-speakerism and cultural essentialism with which it is often associated. Written by a group of scholars working across several continents, the chapters offer diverse perspectives regarding the role language plays in processes of personal growth, learning, development, self-actualisation and power dynamics. The book addresses the theoretical and philosophical nature of authenticity while remaining grounded in the teaching and learning of languages, with authenticity viewed as a practical concern that guides our actions and beliefs. The book will be of interest to scholars, researchers and students of authenticity as well as foreign language teachers interested in the theoretical underpinnings of their practice.
International Perspectives on Motivation
Bringing together motivation-related practical concerns and debates from diverse international contexts and educational settings where English is learned, this book shows how locally produced insights and issues can have wider global significance, resonating with the experiences and concerns of English teachers and learners across the world.
Multiple Perspectives on the Self in SLA
This collection of papers brings together a diverse range of conceptualisations of the self in the domain of second language acquisition and foreign language learning. The volume attempts to unite a fragmented field and provides a thorough overview of the ways in which the self can be conceptualised in SLA contexts.
The Dynamic Interplay between Context and the Language Learner
This edited volume offers a series of state-of-the-art conceptual papers and empirical research studies which consider how contextual factors at multiple levels dynamically interact with individuals to influence how they go about the complex business of learning and using a second language.
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Self and Identity in Adolescent Foreign Language Learning
This book explores the role of identity in adolescent foreign language learning to provide evidence that an identity-focused approach can make a difference to achievement in education. It uses both in-depth exploratory interviews with language learners and a cross-sectional survey to provide a unique glimpse into the identity dynamics that learners need to manage in their interaction with contradictory relational contexts (e.g. teacher vs. classmates; parents vs. friends), and that appear to impair their perceived competence and declared achievement in language learning. Furthermore, this work presents a new model of identity which incorporates several educational psychology theories (e.g. self-discrepancy, self-presentation, impression management), developmental theories of adolescence and principles of foreign language teaching and learning. This book gives rise to potentially policy-changing insights and will be of importance to those interested in the relationship between self, identity and language teaching and learning.
The Brick Maker
Frederick Hermann August Pullman (1845-1925) was born in Lage, Lippe, Germany. With his family he moved to Holme, Germany in 1855 and then to Skanderborg, Denmark. He married Birthe Kirstine Rasmussen (1852-1918) at Vedslet, Denmark. He joined the LDS Church and emigrated to Utah with two of his sons. His wife and the remainder of the family emigrated in 1892-1893. He married Marianna Nielson (1852-1898) after his divorce from Birthe, in 1896. Marianna was born in Lyngaa, Aarhus, Denmark. They moved to Moroni, Utah, where she died along with one of two twin boys. He then married Emma Warner (1877-1941) and lived in Moroni. They later moved to Richfield, Utah. Ancestors and descendants lived in Denmark, Germany, Utah, Idaho, and California.
