Identity

The way an individual understands the relationship between him or herself and the world, and how he or she constructs this relationship in time and space. It integrates the learner and the learning context. It also concerns the structures related to day-by-day social interactions.

It is important for teachers to understand the identity and the reality of the students in order to be able to make the subject content suitable for the learner to absorb the most of it.

ESL readers: Cultural identity makes difference - http://www.gettingboystoread.com/content/esl-readers-cultural-identity-makes-difference

Negotiation of Student Identity Inside and Outside of the ESL Classroom - http://www.ed.psu.edu/englishpds/inquiry/projects/papers08/Harpster.pdf

PARK, S. A feminist approach to understanding ESL identity development: a case study of Korean women in U.S. universities. 2009. 204 f. Tese (Doutorado em Language, Literacy and Sociocultural Studies) – University of New México, Albuquerque, 2009. Disponível em: https://repository.unm.edu/dspace/bitstream/1928/10341/1/Seonsook%20Park%20Final%20Manuscript%2008%2013%202009.pdf. Acesso em: 24 jun. 2010

MILLER, J. Audible difference: ESL and social identity in schools. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 2003.

NORTON, B. Identity and language learning: Gender, ethnicity and educational change. Harlow: Longman/Pearson Education, 2000.