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Bonny Norton
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The University of British ColumbiaAcademy or College
Academy of Social SciencesYear Elected
2016NORTON, Bonny – Department of Language and Literacy Education, The University of British Columbia
Bonny Norton’s innovative and pioneering ideas about identity and language learning continue to have a profound impact on the field of language education worldwide. Her groundbreaking and highly cited research makes visible the social mechanisms of power in language learning and teaching. Her research has found that language learners can help overcome constraints on language learning by claiming more powerful identities from which to speak, read, and write the target language.
Les idées novatrices de Bonny Norton au sujet de l’identité et l’apprentissage d’une langue seconde continuent à avoir un impact important en didactique des langues. Ses recherches largement citées rendent visibles les mécanismes sociaux du pouvoir dans l’enseignement des langues et démontrent la façon dont les étudiants arrivent à surmonter les obstacles durant l’apprentissage en revendiquant des identités plus fortes qui leur permettent d’interagir dans la langue cible.