IDENTITY & LEARNING
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In much of my work, I have studied how people adopt, or get assigned, particular identities through speech. Most of this work involves detailed discourse analysis, analyzing either classroom or autobiographical narrative data. Some of it is ethnographic, based on research in the New Latino Diaspora. Links to all this work appear under "publications." I have also argued that the sorts of discursive identity construction that I study can make essential contributions to learning in classrooms (see especially the article "Interactionally Situated Cognition"). Most cognitive accomplishments rely in part on language, and language in use always both represents content and positions speakers as certain kinds of people. I am studying how the positioning accomplished by classroom speech can facilitate students' learning.
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