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The Languages We Choose to Speak: Speaker Agency, Proficiency and the Implications for English Classrooms
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Basso Ricci, Gabrielle – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2018
Using autobiographical experiences as a framework for inquiry, this article sets out to question the often unexamined assumptions that surround the definition of 'proficiency' in second/foreign languages. In so doing, it opens up possibilities of inquiry into the power-laden relationships between speaker agency, cultural belonging and…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Self Concept, Language Usage