Bruno T Saragiotto, Louise F Sandal, Jan Hartvigsen
Can you be a manual therapist without using your hands?
Chiropractic & manual therapies
author argues second language acquisition sla theorists struggled conceptualize relationship language learner social world developed comprehensive theory social identity integrates language learner language learning context also maintains sla theorists adequately addressed relations power affect interaction language learners target language speakers using data collected canada january december 1991 diaries questionnaires individual group interviews home visits author illustrates conditions immigrant women study created responded sometimes resisted opportunities speak english drawing data analysis well reading social theory author argues current conceptions individual sla theory need reconceptualized draws poststructuralist conception social identity multiple site struggle subject change explain findings study argues conception investment rather motivation capture complex relationship language learners target language sometimes ambivalent desire speak notion investment conceives language learner historical unidimensional complex social history multiple desires article includes discussion implications study classroom teaching current theories communicative competence