Agency Construction and Navigation in English Learning Stories

Lin, Qiuming

Agency Construction and Navigation in English Learning Stories
  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2024-05-08
  • 售價: $4,960
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 159
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 9819914086
  • ISBN-13: 9789819914081

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商品描述

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.
This book sheds new light on teaching English as a foreign language and gives inspirations for enhancing English learners' agency in contemporary context of China. As learner agency shouldbe treated in a dynamic and process view, a low level of agency manifested in a particular period or in a certain context may not necessarily persist in later periods or extend to other contexts. Provided with supportive contextual conditions and taking on positive and powerful identities, language learners are well on the course for higher levels of agency.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

這本書呈現了一項長期研究，採用語言學方法來理解和觀察語言學習者的主體性。它通過檢視自傳式口述敘事中學習者主體性的表現方式以及受到的情境因素的影響，將話語分析中的主體性與應用語言學中的主體性相連結。這本書還展示了主體性不是英語學習者所擁有的固定實體，而是一個不斷在學習者與社會世界之間進行協商的動態概念。它是學習者在複雜且不斷變化的情境中定位和重新定位自己身份的結果。學習者的身份，無論是實際的還是想像的，與他們對英語的投入和英語學習過程密切相關。

這本書為教授英語作為外語提供了新的視角，並為增強當代中國的英語學習者主體性提供了啟示。由於學習者主體性應該以動態和過程的觀點來看待，一個特定時期或特定情境中表現出的低水平主體性不一定會在後續時期持續存在或擴展到其他情境中。在提供支持性情境條件並擁有積極和有力的身份的情況下，語言學習者將朝著更高水平的主體性發展。

作者簡介

Dr. Qiuming Lin is an associate professor in the Faculty of English Language and Culture at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China. She has been teaching for over twenty years to students who major in English language and literature. Her research areas include foreign language teaching and learning, and discourse analyses. In the recent years, she is particularly interested in Chinese students' agency in English learning and has published a dozen of articles in this regard and in related areas. Dr. Lin has also participated in various research projects at institutional, provincial, and national levels. Her research sheds light on the intricate relationships between learner agency, learner identities, and language learning and therefore has important implications for language teaching in EFL context.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

林秋明博士是中國廣東外語外貿大學英語語言與文化學院的副教授。她已經教授英語語言和文學專業的學生超過二十年。她的研究領域包括外語教學與學習以及話語分析。近年來，她對中國學生在英語學習中的主動性特別感興趣，並在這方面以及相關領域發表了十幾篇文章。林博士還參與了各種機構、省級和國家級的研究項目。她的研究揭示了學習者主動性、學習者身份和語言學習之間錯綜複雜的關係，對於英語作為外語教學具有重要的啟示意義。

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