Identity and language learning : gender, ethnicity and educational change

TL;DR: This book discusses language, learning, and teaching in the context of postmethod methods, and discusses Constituents and Categories of Methods, Learner-Centered Methods, and Postmethod Pedagogy.

TL;DR: There has been a remarkable growth of interest in the theory and practice of autonomy in language teaching and learning in recent years as discussed by the authors, focusing on work published since the turn of the 20th century, examines major trends in the recent literature on autonomy related to the emergence of alternative views of autonomy, new contexts of practice and interaction with concepts such as self-regulation, motivation, sociocultural theory and teacher development.

TL;DR: The authors discuss the strengths and weaknesses of these frameworks in relation to the type of information they seek: subject reality, life reality, and text reality, argue that some analytical approaches, in particular content and thematic analyses, are insensitive to the interpretive nature of autobiographic data, and offer recommendations for systematic analysis of bi-and multilinguals' narratives on macro-and micro-levels in terms of content, context, and form.

TL;DR: Creswell as mentioned in this paper explores the philosophical underpinnings, history and key elements of five qualitative inquiry traditions: biography, phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography and case study.

TL;DR: The Eye of Power: A Discussion with Maoists as mentioned in this paper discusses the politics of health in the Eighteenth Century, the history of sexuality, and the Confession of the Flesh.

TL;DR: The postcolonial and the post-modern: The question of agency as discussed by the authors, the question of how newness enters the world: Postmodern space, postcolonial times and the trials of cultural translation, 12.

TL;DR: In this article, the economy of language exchange and its relation to political power is discussed. But the authors focus on the production and reproduction of Legitimate language and do not address its application in the theory of political power.