Authoring the Dialogic Self: Gender, agency and language practices
Gergana Vitanova
[Dialogue Studies, 8] 2010. vi, 175 pp.
Gergana Vitanova
List of John Benjamins publications for which Gergana Vitanova plays a role.
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Subjects Communication Studies | Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Pragmatics
Articles
2022 Chapter 3. Gameful teaching: Exploring language teacher identity and agency through video games Language Teacher Development in Digital Contexts, Kayi-Aydar, Hayriye and Jonathon Reinhardt (eds.), pp. 49–66 | Chapter
The chapter investigates how the identity and agency of a language teacher are constructed through the use of a suite of videogames originally designed for vocabulary practice, called ELLE: the EndLess LEarner. A unique aspect is that the teacher had the rare opportunity to contribute to the game… read more
2013 Dialogue in second language learning and teaching: Directions for research and practice Language and Dialogue 3:3, pp. 388–402 | Article
The paper contextualizes the concepts of dialogue and dialogism, as outlined by Bakhtin’s framework, in the fields of second language acquisition and applied linguistics. Specifically, it shows how dialogism could be applied to three distinct, but interconnected contexts: the context of immigrant… read more
