The Applied Linguistic Individual: Sociocultural Approaches to Identity, Agency and Autonomy

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Phil Benson Lucy Cooker

The Applied Linguistic Individual

Sociocultural Approaches to Identity, Agency and Autonomy

Phil Benson, Lucy Cooker

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English

Equinox
09 July 2013

linguistics; Sociolinguistics

Series: Studies in Applied Linguistics

Although Applied Linguistics research now emphasizes the social over the individual, qualitative research approaches often foreground the individual. Identity, agency and autonomy have also emerged as important, but contested, constructs in sociocultural approaches to research

This book addresses the current status of the 'Applied Linguistic individual' through contributions, from Asia, Australasia, Europe, and North and South America, that discuss the role of the individual in research from perspectives including Sociocultural Theory, Situated Learning, Imagined Communities, Complexity Theory, and Autonomy Theory.

The first part of the book examines theoretical tensions between the social and the individual in their approaches, while the second part explores how they are resolved in data-based research.

Edited by: Phil Benson, Lucy Cooker
Imprint: Equinox
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9781908049391
ISBN 10: 1908049391
Series: Studies in Applied Linguistics
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 09 July 2013
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Phil Benson is a Professor in and Head of the English Department at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, where he teaches on the Department's Masters and Doctor of Education programmes. He is also director of the Faculty of Languages Popular Culture and Education Research and Development Centre. He has published widely on the subject of autonomy, including the book Teaching and Researching Autonomy (Pearson, 2011). Lucy Cooker is a Researcher and PhD Candidate at the University of Nottingham and a consultant on self-access language learning. Prior to her doctoral studies, Lucy was a Senior Lecturer at Kanda University of International Studies in Japan where she established the award winning self-access learning centre.