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Publication details [#61718]

Brown, Lucien. 2016. An Activity-Theoretic Study of Agency and Identity in the Study Abroad Experiences of a Lesbian Nontraditional Learner of Korean. Applied Linguistics 37 (6) : 808–827.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
age | agency | contextualization | foreign language acquisition | gay | identity negotiation | sexism
Language as a subject
Korean
Place, Publisher
Oxford University Press
Journal WWW
http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This activity-theoretic inquiry shows how a non-traditional, lesbian, feminist, 50-year-old US study abroad Korean learner, Julie, applied her agency to adjust her identity and change the interactional rules and language acquisition conditions in a to her hostile classroom activity system.