Agency Construction and Navigation in English Learning Stories
Agency Construction and Navigation in English Learning Stories
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9819914051 | 257 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 6 MB
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9819914051 | 257 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 6 MB
This book presents a longitudinal research which covers a linguistic approach to understand and observe language learner agency. It makes connections between agency in discourse analyses and agency in applied linguistics by examining how learner agency is manifested in autobiographic oral narratives and influenced by contextual factors. This book also demonstrates that agency is not a fixed entity that English learners possess, but a dynamic construct constantly negotiated by the learners with the social world. It is the result of their identity positioning and repositioning within a complex and ever-changing context. Learner identities, either actual or imagined, are significantly correlated with their investment in English and their English learning process.