TY - BOOK ID - 78641567 TI - TheLanguage of Adult Immigrants PY - 2014 SN - 1783092068 178309205X 9781783092048 1783092041 9781783092031 1783092033 9781783092055 1306818184 9781306818186 9781783092062 PB - Bristol Blue Ridge Summit DB - UniCat KW - English language KW - Immigrants KW - Adult education. KW - Literacy programs. KW - Literacy campaigns KW - National literacy campaigns KW - National literacy programs KW - Reading programs (Literacy) KW - Literacy KW - Adults, Education of KW - Education of adults KW - Education KW - Continuing education KW - Open learning KW - Emigrants KW - Foreign-born population KW - Foreign population KW - Foreigners KW - Migrants KW - Persons KW - Aliens KW - Germanic languages KW - EFL (Language study) KW - English as a foreign language KW - English as a second language KW - English to speakers of other languages KW - ESL (Language study) KW - ESOL (Language study) KW - Teaching English as a second language KW - TEFL (Language study) KW - TESL (Language study) KW - Study and teaching KW - Foreign speakers. KW - Business English KW - Education. KW - Government policy KW - Foreign students KW - Vygotsky. KW - agency. KW - discourse. KW - ideology and language. KW - immigrant learners. KW - performativity theory. KW - second language learning. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78641567 AB - This book is the first to explore the constitution of language learner agency by drawing on performativity theory, an approach that remains on the periphery of second language research. Though many scholars have drawn on poststructuralism to theorize learner identity in non-essentialist terms, most have treated agency as an essential feature that belongs to or inheres in individuals. By contrast, this work promotes a view of learner agency as inherently social and as performatively constituted in discursive practice. In developing a performativity approach to learner agency, it builds on the work of Vygotsky and Bakhtin along with research on ‘agency of spaces’ and language ideologies. Through the study of discourses produced in interviews, this work explores how immigrant small business owners co-construct their theories of agency, in relation to language learning and use. The analysis focuses on three discursive constructs produced in the interview talk–subject-predicate constructs, evaluative stance, and reported speech–and investigates their discursive effects in mobilizing ideologically normative, performatively realized agentive selves. ER -