RELC Journal 2003 34: 1, 31-47 Download Citation. Sandra Fotos 267 Vocabulary Learning and Teaching Jeanette S. Peirce's concept of investment, McKay and Wong relate these discou. If you have access to journal content via a university, library or employer, sign in here. The authors identify mutually interacting multiple discourses to which the students were subjected, but of which they were also subjects, and trace the students' negotiations of dynamic, sometimes contradictory, multiple identities. In discussing their findings, McKay and Wong establish a contextualist perspective that foregrounds interrelations of discourse and power in the learner's social environment. Their position is based on a two-year qualitative study of adolescent Chinese-immigrant students conducted in California in the early 1990s, in which the authors and their research associates followed four Mandarin-speaking students through seventh and eighth grades, periodically interviewing them and assessing their English-language development. more In this article, Sandra McKay and Sau-Ling Wong argue for a revision of code-based and individual learner-based views of second-language learning. that although Japanese culture was the main content used in the books. In this article, Sandra McKay and Sau-Ling Wong argue for a revision of code-based and individual. and the Teaching of English as an International Language Sandra Lee McKay.
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