by Mark Knowles | Oct 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
Given that I grew up in a small town in western Iowa and then went on to do something as unfathomable as a Ph.D. in French, it may come as little surprise that people ask me with obvious sincerity and interest to tell them my story. Alternatively, what would not have...
by Mark Knowles | Oct 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
Okay, let’s get into my own language learning story with the hopes that it can shed some light on the identity factor in second language acquisition. In 1973 when I was in the ninth grade (at that time, my school had a junior high and not a middle school, so I was not...
by Mark Knowles | Oct 7, 2020 | learning context, Second Language Acquisition, Socio-cultural
What identity(ies) one brings to the task of language learning has bearing on the way the language is learned. In the last two postings, I brought up a review of the literature by Bonnie Norton and Kelleen Toohey on such an idea in the field of Second Language...
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