Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-210) and index.
Revisiting Identity and Language Learning -- Relevance of Identity Research to Language Learning -- Poststructuralist Theories of Identity -- Identity and Investment -- Imagined Communities and Imagined Identities -- Identity Categories and Language Learning -- Methods and Analysis of Research -- Identity and Language Teaching -- Emerging Themes and Future Directions -- Structure of the Book -- 1.Fact and Fiction in Language Learning -- Saliha and the SLA Canon -- Identity and Language Learning -- Power and Identity -- Motivation and Investment -- Ethnicity, Gender and Class -- Rethinking Language and Communicative Competence -- 2.Researching Identity and Language Learning -- Methodological Framework -- Central Questions -- The Researcher and the Researched -- The Project -- Data Organization -- Comment -- 3.The World of Adult Immigrant Language Learners -- The International Context -- The Canadian World of Immigrant Women -- Biography, Identity and Language Learning -- Comment -- 4.Eva and Mai: Old Heads on Young Shoulders -- Eva -- Mai -- 5.Mothers, Migration and Language Learning -- Katarina -- Martina -- Felicia -- Comment -- 6.Second Language Acquisition Theory Revisited -- Natural Language Learning -- Alberto and The Acculturation Model of SLA -- The Affective Filter -- Reconceptualizing Identity -- Language Learning as a Social Practice -- Comment -- 7.Claiming the Right to Speak in Classrooms and Communities -- Formal Language Learning and Adult Immigrants -- Beyond Communicative Language Teaching -- Rethinking Multiculturalism -- The Diary Study as a Pedagogy of Possibility -- Transforming Monday Morning -- Concluding Comment.