Second Language Identity

Paul A. Malovrh is Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics and Spanish Program Director at the University of South Carolina. Notable publications include Advancedness in Second Language Spanish (co-editor, Benjamins, 2021) and The Handbook of Advanced Proficiency in Second Language Acquisition (co-editor, Wiley, 2018). Nina Moreno is Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at the University of South Carolina. Notable publications include Introducción a la lingüística hispánica actual (co-authored, Routledge, 2017).

• Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1. On Actors, Architecture, and L2 Advancedness in Higher Education; Part I. Advancedness and the L2 Learner: Student Beliefs and Awareness Regarding Advancedness; 2. Advancedness, Advanced Proficiency, and L2-Spanish Learner Identity; 3. A Quantitative Analysis of L2 Learners' Beliefs Regarding Advanced L2- Spanish and Their Perceptions of Advancedness; 4. Can L2 Learners Imagine Advancedness? A Qualitative Study of Language Awareness and the Development of L2 Identity; Part II. Variable Notions of Advancedness: Institutional, Professional, and Social Perspectives; 5. Language Departments' Architecture, Ideology, and Mission Regarding L2 Advancedness; 6. A Quantitative Analysis of Variability in Perceptions of L2 Advancedness Among Practitioners, Researchers, and Administrators in Higher Education; 7. A Qualitative Analysis of Language Professionals' Descriptions of Their Ideology and Assessment of Advanced L2 Spanish; Part III. Assessment, Identity, and Critical Language Awareness as Markers of Advancedness: 8. Assessing Advancedness in the Age of Identity Construction and Global Citizenship; 9. A Quantitative Analysis of L2 Identity and Critical Language Awareness; 10. Imagining Global Citizenship and Intercultural Competence: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of L2 Learner Perceptions and Behavior in Contexts of Identity Co-Construction; 11. Sociocognitive Awareness of L2 Advancedness in Higher Education: A New Parlance for a Changing World; Bibliography; Appendices; Index.

'What happens when we ask L2 students to define 'advancedness'? The response is in Malovrh and Moreno's book, and it's fascinating. Through qualitative and quantitative analyses of learners' beliefs and perceptions of advancedness, the authors capture the way the educational system constrains the relative contribution that linguistic features, critical language awareness, intercultural competence, global citizenship, and learner identity make to the definition of advancedness among undergraduate students in language programs in the US.' Cristina Sanz, Georgetown University