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10 - Translation, Identity and Translanguaging
- from Part II - Multilingual Identity Practices
- Edited by Wendy Ayres-Bennett, University of Cambridge, Linda Fisher, University of Cambridge
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- Multilingualism and Identity
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- 22 July 2022
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- 04 August 2022, pp 201-220
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Cross-disciplinary research in recent years on the intersections between both translation and translanguaging and translation and identity has sought to emphasize the diverse multilingual practices of translators while acknowledging the agency of translators in negotiating power and meaning, and foregrounding the often marginalized practice of translation itself as a creative and multiply boundary-crossing activity. In this chapter, we review current research on translation, translanguaging, and identity in order to better understand the ways that identity is operationalized in multilingual and collaborative translation practice; propose a new model of translator identity that addresses the diversity and collaborative nature of much translation work; analyze multilingual translator identity in practice by highlighting two examples of collaborative translation data from a global multilingual literacy project; and make the case that recognition of the multifaceted, translingual practices of translation, together with our enhanced model of translator identity, may help reconcile divergent understandings of translanguaging and the role of the translator across disciplinary boundaries.
Investment and motivation in language learning: What's the difference?
- Ron Darvin, Bonny Norton
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- Language Teaching / Volume 56 / Issue 1 / January 2023
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- 15 March 2021, pp. 29-40
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The year 2020 marked the 25th year since Bonny Norton published her influential TESOL Quarterly article, ‘Social identity, investment, and language learning’ (Norton Peirce, 1995) and the fifth year since we, Darvin and Norton (2015), co-authored ‘Identity and a model of investment in applied linguistics’ in the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics. From the time Norton's 1995 piece was published, investment and motivation have been conceptually imbricated and often collocated, as they hold up two different lenses to investigate the same reality: why learners choose to learn an additional language (L2). In our 2015 article, we made the case that while it is important to ask the question, ‘Are students motivated to learn a language?’ it is equally productive to ask, ‘Are students invested in the language practices of the classroom or community?’ (Darvin & Norton, 2015, p. 37). We recognize that the relationship between language teachers and learners is unequal, and that teachers hold the power to shape these practices in diverse ways. Teachers bring to the classroom not only their personal histories and knowledge, but also their own worldviews and assumptions (Darvin, 2015), which may or may not align with those of learners. Relations of power between learners can also be unequal. As Norton and Toohey (2011, p. 421) note:
A language learner may be highly motivated, but may nevertheless have little investment in the language practices of a given classroom or community, which may, for example, be racist, sexist, elitist, anti-immigrant, or homophobic. Alternatively, the language learner's conception of good language teaching may not be consistent with that of the teacher, compromising the learner's investment in the language practices of the classroom. Thus, the language learner, despite being highly motivated, may not be invested in the language practices of a given classroom.
19 - Identity
- from Part IV - Individual Differences
- Edited by John W. Schwieter, Alessandro Benati, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Language Learning
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In language learning research, different terms have been used to refer to identity: “self”; “position”; “role”; “subjectivity”; “subject”; and “agent”. Scholars in the 1970s and 1980s interested in this research area tended to draw distinctions between social identity and cultural identity. Social identity referred to the relationship between the learner and the larger social world, mediated through institutions like families, schools, workplaces, social services, and law courts (e.g., Gumperz, 1982). On the other hand, cultural identity referred to the relationship between an individual and members of a particular ethnic group who share a common history and language, and similar ways of understanding the world. Past theories of cultural identity, however, tended to essentialize and reify identities in problematic ways (Atkinson, 1999). In more recent years, the difference between social and cultural identity is seen to be theoretically more fluid, and the intersections between social and cultural identities are considered more significant than their differences. Contemporary identity research has been consistently marked by a social constructionist paradigm that pays attention to the micro-level of interaction and meaning making. Recognizing that identity is socioculturally constructed, educators draw on both institutional and community practices to understand the conditions under which language learners speak, read, and write the target language.
Research tasks on identity in language learning and teaching
- Bonny Norton, Peter I. De Costa
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- Language Teaching / Volume 51 / Issue 1 / January 2018
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- 12 December 2017, pp. 90-112
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The growing interest in identity and language education over the past two decades, coupled with increased interest in digital technology and transnationalism, has resulted in a rich body of work that has informed language learning, teaching, and research. To keep abreast of these developments in identity research, the authors propose a series of research tasks arising from this changing landscape. To frame the discussion, they first examine how theories of identity have developed, and present a theoretical toolkit that might help scholars negotiate the fast evolving research area. In the second section, they present three broad and interrelated research questions relevant to identity in language learning and teaching, and describe nine research tasks that arise from the questions outlined. In the final section, they provide readers with a methodology toolkit to help carry out the research tasks discussed in the second section. By framing the nine proposed research tasks in relation to current theoretical and methodological developments, they provide a contemporary guide to research on identity in language learning and teaching. In doing so, the authors hope to contribute to a trajectory of vibrant and productive research in language education and applied linguistics.
Identity and a Model of Investment in Applied Linguistics
- Ron Darvin, Bonny Norton
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- Annual Review of Applied Linguistics / Volume 35 / March 2015
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- 13 March 2015, pp. 36-56
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This article locates Norton's foundational work on identity and investment within the social turn of applied linguistics. It discusses its historical impetus and theoretical anchors, and it illustrates how these ideas have been taken up in recent scholarship. In response to the demands of the new world order, spurred by technology and characterized by mobility, it proposes a comprehensive model of investment, which occurs at the intersection of identity, ideology, and capital. The model recognizes that the spaces in which language acquisition and socialization take place have become increasingly deterritorialized and unbounded, and the systemic patterns of control more invisible. This calls for new questions, analyses, and theories of identity. The model addresses the needs of learners who navigate their way through online and offline contexts and perform identities that have become more fluid and complex. As such, it proposes a more comprehensive and critical examination of the relationship between identity, investment, and language learning. Drawing on two case studies of a female language learner in rural Uganda and a male language learner in urban Canada, the model illustrates how structure and agency, operating across time and space, can accord or refuse learners the power to speak.
Identity, language learning, and social change
- Bonny Norton, Kelleen Toohey
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- Language Teaching / Volume 44 / Issue 4 / October 2011
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- 26 August 2011, pp. 412-446
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In this review article on identity, language learning, and social change, we argue that contemporary poststructuralist theories of language, identity, and power offer new perspectives on language learning and teaching, and have been of considerable interest in our field. We first review poststructuralist theories of language, subjectivity, and positioning and explain sociocultural theories of language learning. We then discuss constructs of investment and imagined communities/imagined identities (Norton Peirce 1995; Norton 1997, 2000, 2001), showing how these have been used by diverse identity researchers. Illustrative examples of studies that investigate how identity categories like race, gender, and sexuality interact with language learning are discussed. Common qualitative research methods used in studies of identity and language learning are presented, and we review the research on identity and language teaching in different regions of the world. We examine how digital technologies may be affecting language learners' identities, and how learner resistance impacts language learning. Recent critiques of research on identity and language learning are explored, and we consider directions for research in an era of increasing globalization. We anticipate that the identities and investments of language learners, as well as their teachers, will continue to generate exciting and innovative research in the future.
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Multilingualism in Southern Africa
- Bonny Norton Peirce, Stanley G.M. Ridge
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In his keynote address to the 1994 conference of the Southern African Association of Applied Linguistics, Adegbija (1994a) identified three problems faced by applied linguists in the African multilingual context. First, apart from the vibrant work in South Africa, there is very little focus on applied linguistic research in Africa, and what there is tends to focus on the ex-colonial languages rather than the indigenous languages. Second, applied linguists in African countries other than South Africa tend to have very limited research facilities. In some cases, teachers struggle to acquire the most basic resources such as typewriters and stationery. Third, political, social, and economic instability in many parts of Africa seriously undermines the work of applied linguists: A program of work begun in one political era can be summarily cut off in another.
Chapter 3 - Critical Language Teacher Education
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INTRODUCTION
As global migration makes classrooms increasingly diverse, there is growing concern about the lack of school success for students of color, those who live in poverty, immigrants and refugees, and minority-language speakers. Such learners are often marginalized and thus denied equal access to social and material resources that support acquisition of the language and literacy skills that promote full participation in classrooms and communities. Although many policy and social service documents continue to focus on what these learners are lacking – locating the “problem” as deficiencies in the learners – current research in the fields of education and language learning is recognizing that there is a mismatch between educational systems and pedagogies and the learners that they serve. In response, theories that reconceptualize learning and learning environments are emerging that represent new ways of thinking about the goals of education, the roles of teachers and learners, and the processes of learning.
Perhaps the most visible and widely represented paradigms that challenge traditional views of language, teaching and learning are sociocultural (see Franson and Holliday, Chapter 4) and critical approaches. In this chapter we provide a discussion of what critical has come to mean in educational and applied linguistics research, theory, and practice, and what it might mean for second language teaching and language teacher education. We survey the literature on critical language teacher education to offer exemplars of current pedagogies and practices across diverse contexts. We then identify a number of principles associated with critical language teacher education, and conclude with a discussion, in classic critical tradition, that both supports and problematizes this notion.
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DEFINING CRITICAL
There is much debate about what is meant by a critical approach to education and applied linguistics. Educators confront a smorgasbord of terms, including critical theory, critical pedagogy, critical literacy, critical applied linguistics, critical language awareness, critical discourse analysis, and critical reflection. To complicate the debate, other terms are often used interchangeably, for example, liberatory education, social justice education, education for equity, transformative practice, empowerment, and praxis. So what do these mean, and, more specifically, what is “critical” about them?
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- Edited by Bonny Norton, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Kelleen Toohey, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
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Chapter 1 - Critical pedagogies and language learning: An introduction
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Advocates of critical approaches to second language teaching are interested in relationships between language learning and social change. From this perspective, language is not simply a means of expression or communication; rather, it is a practice that constructs, and is constructed by, the ways language learners understand themselves, their social surroundings, their histories, and their possibilities for the future. This collection assembles the work of a variety of scholars interested in critical perspectives on language education in globally diverse sites of practice. All are interested in investigating the ways that social relationships are lived out in language and how issues of power, while often obscured in language research and educational practice (Kubota, this volume), are centrally important in developing critical language education pedagogies. Indeed, as Morgan (this volume) suggests, “politically engaged critiques of power in everyday life, communities, and institutions” are precisely what are needed to develop critical pedagogies in language education. The chapters have varying foci, seeking to better understand the relationships between writers and readers, teachers and students, test makers and test takers, teacher-educators and student teachers, and researchers and researched.
The term critical pedagogy is often associated with the work of scholars such as Freire (1968/1970), Giroux (1992), Luke (1988), Luke and Gore (1992), McLaren (1989), and Simon (1992) in the field of education. Aware of myriad political and economic inequities in contemporary societies, advocates have explored the “social visions” that pedagogical practices support (Simon, 1992), and critiques of classroom practices in terms of their social visions have been common and longstanding in critical educational literature.
II - CHALLENGING IDENTITIES
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I - RECONCEPTUALIZING SECOND LANGUAGE EDUCATION
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IV - EDUCATING TEACHERS FOR CHANGE
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This important volume on the critical pedagogical approach addresses such topics as critical multiculturalism, gender andlanguage learning, and popular culture.Critical pedagogies are instructional approaches aimed at transforming existing social relations in the interest of greater equity in schools and communities. This paperback edition on the pedagogical approach addresses such topics as critical multiculturalism, gender and language learning, and popular culture. Committed to language education that contributes to social justice, the contributors explore the meaning of creating equitable and critical instructional practices, by exploring diverse representations of knowledge. In addition, recommendations are made for further research, teacher education, and critical testing.
Chapter 11 - Comic book culture and second language learners
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III - RESEARCHING CRITICAL PRACTICES
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