Rethinking the Genders and Becoming in Second Language Education

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Pages:: 45–57

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004420939_003

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This chapter plays with the concept of becoming woman (Deleuze & Guattari, 1972/1994) as a way of gaining a deeper understanding of the construction of gender within the context of second language immigration. The concept has had a productive, if controversial, relationship to the notion of the other, originally conceptualized in terms of gender by De Beauvoir and further developed by such feminist theorists as Irigaray and Kristeva. Becoming is a central concept within the Deleuzian oeuvre because it is explicitly set against being and identity, central notions within the tradition of Western philosophy since the Greeks. In what follows, I re-examine the data pertaining to a study of adults learning English while negotiating sites of tension, conflict, and contradiction within their experiences of immigration. I argue that becoming woman has significant explanatory power in conceptualizing the construction of subjectivity and gender in the context of second language immigration.

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Deterritorializing Language, Teaching, Learning, and Research

Deleuzo-Guattarian Perspectives on Second Language Education

Series: Critical New Literacies: The Praxis of English Language Teaching and Learning, Volume: 9

Cover Deterritorializing Language, Teaching, Learning, and Research

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004420939

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 05 Dec 2019

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- Education

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Foreword

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Notes on Contributors

Introduction Towards Extraordinary Research in Second Language Education

Part 1 Deterritorializing the Language Curriculum

Chapter 1 Rhizocurriculum in ESL

Part 2 Deterritorializing Language Learners’ Identity

Chapter 2 Rethinking the Genders and Becoming in Second Language Education

Chapter 3 Rethinking Plurality in Our Liquid Societies

Chapter 4 Deleuze and Globish

Chapter 5 Affective Affordances, Desires, and Assemblages

Part 3 Deterritorializing Literacies

Chapter 6 Affect and the Second Language Writer’s Assemblage

Chapter 7 Experimenting with Multiple Literacies in Family Literacy Intervention Programs

Part 4 Deterritorializing Language Teacher Education

Chapter 8 How Might Teacher Education in CALL Exist? Becomings and Experimentations

Chapter 9 Always In-between

Intermezzo Proliferating Becomings with/in Second Language Education

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