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Identity Options in Russian Textbooks
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Shardakova, Marya; Pavlenko, Aneta – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2004
This article introduces a new analytical approach to the study of identity options offered in foreign and second language textbooks. This approach, grounded in poststructuralist theory and critical discourse analysis, is applied to 2 popular beginning Russian textbooks. Two sets of identity options are examined in the study: imagined learners…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Discourse Analysis, Russian, Metalinguistics
"I Never Knew I Was a Bilingual": Reimagining Teacher Identities in TESOL.
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Pavlenko, Aneta – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2003
Examines imagined professional and linguistic communities available to preservice and inservice English-as-a-Second-Language and English-as-a-Foreign-Language teachers enrolled in one TESOL program. Discursive analysis of students' positioning in their linguistic autobiographies suggests that the traditional discourse of linguistic competence…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Native Speakers