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Writing a New Self in the Third Place: Language Students and Identity Formation
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Huhtala, Anne; Lehti-Eklund, Hanna – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2010
Studying a foreign language at university level is a multifaceted project entailing constant identity formation as a foreign language user--and simultaneously as a plurilingual subject. As far as the second language (L2) learner is concerned, the language learning process can be seen as a construction of a new "third place" between the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Second Languages, Second Language Learning