The self and the new language: identities and foreign language learning and teaching
Students’ attitudes towards a FL they are learning can have considerable influence on the language acquisition process. Identities determine how teachers’ and students’ relationship with the world is built across time and space (NORTON, 2000), and so they permeate the whole teaching/learning process...
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| Language: | English |
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Universidade de Brasília
2012-01-01
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| Series: | Horizontes |
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| Online Access: | http://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/horizontesla/article/view/6080 |
| Summary: | Students’ attitudes towards a FL they are learning can have considerable influence on the language acquisition process. Identities determine how teachers’ and students’ relationship with the world is built across time and space (NORTON, 2000), and so they permeate the whole teaching/learning process. They also bear a close relationship with the context, and are socially constructed, thus influencing actions and interactions, while also being influenced by them (HALL, 2000; MOITA LOPES, 2003; NORTON, 2000; SILVA, 2000; WOODWARD, 2000). The goal of this work is to sensitize the agents in the FL teaching/learning process to the importance of the issue of identities. Thus, further research may be carried out for a better understanding of this complex web of relationships and (re)constructions that can influence the whole FL teaching/learning process, and thereby advance improvements to it. |
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| ISSN: | 1677-9770 2237-0951 |