Identity and Language Learning

Bonny Norton is a Professor and Distinguished University Scholar in the Department of Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia, Canada. She is committed to social change through the power of ideas and the integration of theory, research, and practice. In 2010 she was the inaugural recipient of the “Senior Researcher Award” by the Second Language Research group of AERA (American Educational Research Association) and in 2012 was inducted as an AERA Fellow. Her website can be found at http://www.educ.ubc.ca/faculty/norton/

• PrefaceIntroduction1. Fact and Fiction in Language Learning2. Researching Identity and Language Learning3. The World of Adult Immigrant Language Learners4. Eva and Mai: Old Heads on Young Shoulders5. Mothers, Migration and Language Learning6. Second Language Acquisition Theory Revisited7. Claiming the Right to Speak in Classrooms and CommunitiesAfterword by Claire Kramsch

The publication of Bonny Norton's Identity and Language Learning in 2000 was a landmark moment in the field of additional/second language learning. The countless discussions in journal articles, research reports and PhD theses in the past decade testify to the power of her multi-faceted and generative ideas. I have no doubt that this revised edition will be on the 'must read' list of anyone concerned with additional/second language learning and language education more generally.