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- Title
Impacts of Positioning, Power, and Resistance on EFL Learners' Identity Construction through Classroom Interaction: A Perspective from Critical Classroom Discourse Analysis.
- Authors
Tian, Wenwen; Dumlao, Remart Padua
- Abstract
In this study, we explored how positioning, power, and resistance might have possible impacts on learners' identity construction. We conducted this study in a 6-month language and culture program from August 2018 to January 2019 involving one teacher and 24 English major undergraduate students at a public university in Thailand. Using Kumaravadivelu's (1999) Critical Classroom Discourse Analysis (CCDA) as an analytical framework and Braun and Clarke's (2006) thematic analysis approach to analysing data, we found three themes that illustrate how participants demonstrated positioning, power, and resistance: (a) learners' choice of code as passive resistance, (b) circulating power in interaction and struggles of power, and (c) multiple positioning in classroom interactions. The findings suggest classroom context serves as a learning space to shape the contours of learners' identity positioning and dynamics of power negotiation. This study contributes to the growing research on language learners' identity in classroom interactions from a CCDA perspective. It suggests that EFL teaching should incorporate learner identity as an explicit goal that serves as an interpretive frame for learners' on-going academic growth as English users within and beyond classroom contexts.
- Subjects
THAILAND; CRITICAL discourse analysis; DISCOURSE analysis; THEMATIC analysis; CLASSROOMS; LANGUAGE research; STATE universities &; colleges; CONSTRUCTION
- Publication
Qualitative Report, 2020, Vol 25, Issue 6, p1436
- ISSN
1052-0147
- Publication type
Article