Whose English is it anyway? Culture, language and identity: Ethnographic portraits from Oaxaca, Mexico

dc.creator	Clemente, Ángeles
dc.creator	Higgins, Michael
dc.date	2005-10-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:12:37Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:12:37Z
dc.identifier	1699-437X
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/d9e6493e495f448fa78ea6e116be66ce
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/15374
dc.description	In this paper we will present a series of ethnographic portraits of students who are in the process of learning and teaching English at the Centro de Idiomas, which is part of the state university in the city of Oaxaca, Mexico. These portraits will focus on how the students at the Centro navigate the cultural and social complexities of learning English as an additional language. Our argument will look at the way the process of the accumulation of cultural capital, modes of identity construction, and the dynamics of social agency affect the means for learning an additional language (Bourdieu, 1991; Pavlenko, 2002). The young working and middle class Oaxacan students at the Centro are involved in the pursuit of various forms of linguistics and cultural capital. Moreover, they use their various identity locations as a means of learning, using and teaching English. These identity locations involve issues concerning gender, sexuality, ethnicity and assumptions about standards of English. These students move between these assumptions and their own desires about language performance and they use their own agency to recompose English as something beyond such assumptions (Sayer, Clemente and Higgins 2004).
dc.language	Spanish
dc.language	Catalan
dc.language	Galician
dc.language	Portuguese
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Departamento Interfacultativo de Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
dc.relation	http://www.uam.es/otros/ptcedh/2005v1_pdf/v1n3eng.pdf
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1699-437X
dc.source	Papeles de Trabajo sobre Cultura, Educación y Desarrollo Humano, Vol 1, Iss 3, Pp 1-33 (2005)
dc.subject	Culture
dc.subject	Language
dc.subject	Identity
dc.subject	Ethnography
dc.subject	Oaxaca
dc.subject	Psychology
dc.subject	BF1-990
dc.subject	Philosophy. Psychology. Religion
dc.subject	B
dc.subject	DOAJ:Psychology
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Psychology
dc.subject	BF1-990
dc.subject	Philosophy. Psychology. Religion
dc.subject	B
dc.subject	DOAJ:Psychology
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Psychology
dc.subject	BF1-990
dc.subject	Philosophy. Psychology. Religion
dc.subject	B
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Psychology
dc.subject	BF1-990
dc.subject	Philosophy. Psychology. Religion
dc.subject	B
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Psychology
dc.subject	BF1-990
dc.subject	Philosophy. Psychology. Religion
dc.subject	B
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Whose English is it anyway? Culture, language and identity: Ethnographic portraits from Oaxaca, Mexico
dc.type	article