This article locates Norton's foundational work on identity and investment within the social
turn of applied linguistics. It discusses its historical impetus and theoretical anchors, and it …

In this study, empirical and conceptual scholarship (approximately 100 studies) regarding
the education of secondary multilingual learners and their teachers are analyzed through …

What constitutes a “good teacher” and “good teaching” has come under much scrutiny in an
age of globalization, transnationalism, and increased demands for accountability. It is …

The qualitative meta-study reported here investigated Finnish vocational teachers'
professional agency amid an educational reform. Differences were found in teachers' …

The growing interest in identity and language education over the past two decades, coupled
with increased interest in digital technology and transnationalism, has resulted in a rich body …

This study explores the identity (re) negotiations and agency of three pre-service classroom
teachers who received their ESL (English as a Second Language) endorsement at a …

In this article the researcher reports on a longitudinal study which investigated the imagined
identities of a preservice English teacher in New Zealand and compared these with the …

Abstract Language teacher identity (LTI) has recently become a prominent theme in the
second language teacher education (SLTE) research because teacher identities play a …

This chapter focuses on the link between positioning theory and applied linguistics research.
The chapter explains how various social and poststructural concepts in applied linguistics …

In this paper, relying on the sociocultural framework of learning, we report on the results of
an ethnographically-grounded investigation of agency work among nine pre-service …