Overview
- Establishes integrative theoretical framework to investigate agency at three levels: clausal, discoursal, and contextual
- Explores an innovative way to examine agency of second language learners and its fluctuations
- Applies SFL analysis to spontaneous oral discourse and to Chinese language
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Keywords
- Language Learner Agency
- Agency of Second Language Learners
- Discursive Construction of Agency
- Agency Fluctuations in Language Learners
- Agency and Structure
- Language Learner Identity
- Identity Transformations in Language Learners
- Chinese Learners of English
- Chinese English-majors
- English Learning Stories
- Learner Narratives
- Oral Autobiographic Narratives
- Oral Narratives of Learning Experiences
About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Agency Construction and Navigation in English Learning Stories
Authors: Qiuming Lin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-1406-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-1405-0Published: 07 May 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-1408-1Published: 08 May 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-1406-7Published: 06 May 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 159
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 27 illustrations in colour
Topics: Language Education, Applied Linguistics, Sociology of Education