Gergana Vitanova
List of John Benjamins publications in which Gergana Vitanova is
involved.
Title
Authoring the Dialogic Self: Gender, agency and language practices
Gergana Vitanova
This book offers a truly interdisciplinary perspective on key socio-cultural aspects of second language learning. Building on Bakhtin’s philosophy of language and the self, it examines the complex intersections among gender, culture, and agency in the everyday discursive practices of immigrants.… read moreArticles
Vitanova, Gergana, Emily Johnson, Sandra Sausa, Amy Giroux and Don Merritt 2022
Chapter 3. Gameful teaching: Exploring language teacher identity and agency through video games Language Teacher Development in Digital Contexts, Kayi-Aydar, Hayriye and Jonathon Reinhardt (eds.), pp. 49–66 | Chapter The chapter investigates how the identity and agency of a language teacher are constructed through the use of a suite of videogames originally designed for vocabulary practice, called ELLE: the EndLess LEarner. A unique aspect is that the teacher had the rare opportunity to contribute to the… read more The paper contextualizes the concepts of dialogue and dialogism, as outlined by Bakhtin’s framework, in the fields of second language acquisition and applied linguistics. Specifically, it shows how dialogism could be applied to three distinct, but interconnected contexts: the context of immigrant… read more 
