The non-mother tongues teaching in the age of migrations : the importance of linguistic biographies

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Isabel García Parejo
Théophile Ambadiang
Although a concept such as ‘identity’ has been at the centre of the debate on second language learning, its dissociation from agency has the effect of oversimplifying it, and allows for an excessively unproblematic conceptualization of the process of second language learning/teaching. Based on data obtained from questionnaires administered to adult immigrants living in Madrid who come from Romania, Morocco, Equatorial Guinea and other subSaharan countries, it is suggested that agency is crucial in any anthropological reflection on language learning, as it underlies identity and motivation, is mediated by what Schiffman (2006) calls ‘linguistic culture’ and, moreover, is intimately associated to alterity.
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second language, agency, identity, linguistic culture, adult migrants

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García Parejo, Isabel; Ambadiang, Théophile. “The non-mother tongues teaching in the age of migrations : the importance of linguistic biographies”. Doblele: revista de lengua y literatura, 2018, vol.VOL 4, pp. 22-40, https://raco.cat/index.php/doblele/article/view/346956.