Language Learner Identities Anı Yayıncılık

In parallel to the effect of globalization and the status of English as a lingua franca, there have been new discussions about the place of self and identity in L2 learning. As Merchant (2005, p. 301) puts it, “we inhabit a social world in which identity is complex, no longer closely tied to place and territory, delineated by nationhood, nor simply created, as psychology suggests, through acts of identification”. Instead, it is produced by action and performance. In other words, the idea of doing identity and performing identity has become salient (Ivanic, 2006). This idea suggests a way of lo...