Bonny Norton
List of John Benjamins publications in which Bonny Norton is involved.
Articles
2018 Identity and investment in multilingual classrooms Foreign Language Education in Multilingual Classrooms, Bonnet, Andreas and Peter Siemund (eds.), pp. 237–252 | Chapter
This chapter examines the trajectory of Bonny Norton’s research on identity and language learning, highlighting her construct of investment, developed as a sociological complement to the psychological construct of motivation (Norton 2013). An important focus of the chapter is the expanded 2015… read more
2012 Language learner stories and imagined identities Narrative Inquiry 22:1, pp. 194–201 | Article
In seeking to better understand English language learners and their imagined identities, which is the central focus of our article, scholars have drawn extensively on the work of Norton and colleagues. This work has foregrounded the language learner as a participating social agent with complex and… read more
2008 Identity, investment, and Chinese learners of English Chinese Students: Perspectives on their social, cognitive, and linguistic investment in English medium interaction, Arkoudis, Sophie and Chris Davison (eds.), pp. 109–120 | Article