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This book offers a truly interdisciplinary perspective on key socio-cultural aspects of second language learning. Building on Bakhtin's philosophy of language and the self, it examines the complex intersections among gender, culture, and agency in the everyday discursive practices of immigrants. Bakhtin's dialogic framework still remains on the periphery of second language acquisition research. The book embraces not only Bakhtin's well-known notion of dialogue but also his core concepts of responsibility and ethics in the analysis of immigrants' narrative samples. The significance of narratives is underscored throughout the book, and a dialogic, discourse-centered approach to narrative as a genre is suggested. Authoring the Dialogical Self targets a range of disciplines. Scholars in applied linguistics, narrative studies, cultural psychology, and communication studies will find the discussed concepts relevant. The rich data samples and detailed analysis make the book appropriate for graduate courses in TESOL, language and identity, or language and gender.

Dialogue analysis. --- Oral communication. --- Oral transmission --- Speech communication --- Verbal communication --- Communication --- Analysis of dialogue --- DA (Interpersonal communication) --- Interpersonal communication --- Oral communication --- Dialogue analysis

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This book showcases how language learner agency can be understood and researched from varying perspectives by providing, for the first time, a collection of diverse approaches in one volume. The volume is organised into three main sections:the first sections offers an introduction to varying theoretical approaches to agency; the second section presents analyses of agency in a variety of empirical studies; and the third section focuses on the pedagogical implications of data-based studies of agency. The volume includes the work of researchers working in languages including English (ESL and EFL), Greek, Spanish, Swedish, Italian, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati and Truku (an indigenous language in Taiwan) and with both child and adult language learners. This collection will serve as a key reference for researchers of language learning and teaching, sociolinguistics and language and identity.

Second language acquisition --- Language and languages --- Interdisciplinary approach in education. --- Integrated curriculum --- Interdisciplinarity in education --- Interdisciplinary studies --- Curriculum planning --- Holistic education --- Foreign language study --- Language and education --- Language schools --- Second language learning --- Language acquisition --- Study and teaching. --- Methodology. --- Language and languages Study and teaching --- Study and teaching --- Second language acquisition Study and teaching --- Agency in Learning L2. --- Agency in Second Language Learning. --- SLA. --- Second Language Acquisition. --- foreign language learning. --- language learner agency. --- language learners. --- language teachers. --- learner agency. --- second language learning. --- second language teaching.