Identity & Language Learning draws on a longitudinal case study of immigrant women in Canada to develop new ideas about identity investment & imagined communities in the field of language learning & teaching Bonny Norton demonstrates that a poststructuralist conception of identity as multiple a site of struggle & subject to change across time & place is highly productive for understanding language learning Her sociological construct of investment is an important complement to psychological theories of motivation The implications for language teaching & teacher education are profound Now including a new comprehensive Introduction as well as an Afterword by Claire Kramsch this second edition addresses the following central questions- Under what conditions do language learners speak listen read & write?- How are relations of power implicated in the negotiation of identity?- How can teachers address the investments & imagined identities of learners? The book integrates research theory & classroom practice & is essential reading for students teachers & researchers in the fields of language learning & teaching TESOL applied linguistics & literacy