Title
Sociological approaches to second language learning and agency
Date Issued
05 December 2014
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
book part
Author(s)
University Paris Descartes
Publisher(s)
Channel View Publications
Abstract
Learning a language is primarily and fundamentally based on the acquisition of a new linguistic system, but beyond that, it involves socialization into a community’s specific ways of representing and living social reality. It is the process through which an individual seeks to appropriate resources that allow her or him to actively take part in the social construction of reality (Berger and Luckmann, 1981) in a community of practice (Lave and Wenger, 2007). Language acquisition is one of the requirements for an individual to become a social actor, and linguistic resources enable her or him to influence the target speech community. Therefore, learning a language is also about negotiating access to a language community and, thus, it is embedded in power relations. All this implies that learning a language is related to agency..
Start page
91
End page
109
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Educación general (incluye capacitación, pedadogía)
Sociología
Lingüística
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84949474845
Resource of which it is part
Theorizing and Analyzing Agency in Second Language Learning: Interdisciplinary Approaches
ISBN of the container
978-178309290-1, 978-178309288-8
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus