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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Main Author: Letícia Coroa do Couto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de Brasília 2012-01-01
Series:Horizontes
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Online Access:http://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/horizontesla/article/view/6080
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description 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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spelling doaj.art-b93b994c9ddc41c785deb506f5be112d2022-12-22T03:16:07ZengUniversidade de BrasíliaHorizontes1677-97702237-09512012-01-011014966The self and the new language: identities and foreign language learning and teachingLetícia Coroa do Couto0Universidade de BrasíiaStudents’ 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.http://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/horizontesla/article/view/6080ensino/aprendizagem de LEidentidadesconstrução identitária
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title_short The self and the new language: identities and foreign language learning and teaching
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