Identity

Identity

1. Individual as a construction of constraints & activities

2. Individual as a performer

3. Five dimensions

   • Relational
   • Discoursally constructed
   • Not a state process of identification
   • Networked
   • Continuously reconstructed

4. Regarded in the L2 classroom

   • Different perspectives
     • Structuralist
       • Language
         • Dichotomy & differentiation of
           • Language & Speech
           • Gender
           • Ethnicity
       • Learning
         • Individual & mental process
         • Teaching
           • Monolingual
             • No relation between native language & target language
           • Static roles
       • Learner
         • Personalities, learning stiles & motivations
           • Fixed, long term & non-changing
         • Ideal
           • Not affected by context
     • Post structuralist
       • Language
         • Sings that change
           • According to
             • Community
             • Context
       • Learning
         • Teaching
           • Bilingual
             • Discourse styles & features from native language and target language
               • Change learner's perspective of the world
           • Changing roles
             • 'Articulate knower'
         • Social & collective process
       • Learner
         • Subject of gender & ethnicity
         • Personalities, learning styles & motivations
           • Dynamic, changes over time & encourages sensitivity and relation with the world
           • Dynamic theory of subjectivity