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Second-Language Learning in the Activity of Podcasting Storybook Writing: Fluid Personal Identity

Tue, April 17, 12:25 to 1:55pm, Vancouver Convention Centre, Floor: First Level, East Ballroom B

Abstract

By using ethnography as a method, I utilized Lave and Wenger’s community-of-practice (CoP) as a lens to visualize the second-language learning (SLL) that occurred in the activity of podcasting storybook writing. Personal identity affect access to learning resources and its assignment does not stay unchanged, but is very fluid, changeable and closely related to the social setting and the people one encounters.

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