Author: Rashidova, Nigora Davronovna

Annotation: Identity, Language Learning, and Critical Pedagogies in Digital Times” by Ron Darvin and Bonny Norton gives information about how technology innovations influences to learners’ sociocultural identities. There are multiple identities among language learners even they are categorized into two types such as social identity and cultural identities. Social identity covers relationship between language learners and surrounded social groups where people take place according to their status in real world (Gumperz, 1982). Cultural identity represents connection between people and individual’s culture, ethnicity, the same historical background, language and comprehension (Valdes, 1986).

Keywords: identity, technology, sociocultural identity, English learners, language learning

Pages in journal: 468 - 471