The Language of Adult Immigrants - Agency in the Making

This work explores how immigrant small business owners co-construct their theories of agency, in relation to language learning and use. It explores the constitution of language learner agency by drawing on performativity theory. It builds on the work of Vygotsky and Bakhtin along with research on 'agency of spaces' and language ideologies.

About the author

Elizabeth R. Miller (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison) is Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where she is Associate Chair and Director of Undergraduate Programs. Her current research focuses on language teacher identity, agency and emotions and has been published in journals such as Applied Linguistics, TESOL Quarterly, Language Teaching Research, System, and the Modern Language Journal, among others. She has published a monograph and three co-edited volumes with Multilingual Matters and one co-edited volume with Bloomsbury Publishers.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth R Miller, Elizabeth R. Miller
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.06.2014
• EAN: 9781783092048
• ISBN: 978-1-78309-204-8
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 211 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 340 g
• Series: New Perspectives on Language a; New Perspectives on Language a
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology