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Questioning Identity: The Case of One Second‐Language Learner
Author(s) -
Rymes Betsy,
Pash Diana
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1525/aeq.2001.32.3.276
Subject(s) - identity (music) , mainstream , cognition , linguistics , sociology , mathematics education , psychology , pedagogy , philosophy , physics , theology , neuroscience , acoustics
With the goal of illuminating how identity and cognition are in tension in classroom activity, we examine how one second‐language learner answers questions in a mainstream second‐grade classroom. To understand this learner's participation, we analyze two conflicting “language games.” We find the second‐language learner often is adept at “passing” as knowing, but that he achieves this identity‐preserving expertise at the expense of an understanding of classroom lessons.