On Language Learner Agency: A Complex Dynamic Systems Theory Perspective.

Autor/in	Larsen-Freeman, Diane
Titel	On Language Learner Agency: A Complex Dynamic Systems Theory Perspective.
Quelle	In: The modern language journal, 103 (2019) Supplement, S. 61-79Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Anmerkungen 11; Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0026-7902
Schlagwörter	Didaktik; Methodik; Ethik; Interdisziplinarität
Abstract	Agency has attracted considerable attention, especially of late. Nevertheless, perceptions of language learners as nonagentive persist. In this article the Douglas Fir Group's call for a transdisciplinary perspective is heeded in a Complex Dynamic Systems Theory's (CDST) conceptualization of agency. It is suggested that CDST maintains the structure-agency complementarity while bringing to the fore the relational and emergent nature of agency. Coordination dynamics is identified as a possible mechanism for the phylogenetic and ontogenetic emergence of agency. CDST further characterizes agency as spatially-temporally situated. It can be achieved and changed through iteration and co-adaptation. It is also multidimensional and heterarchical. In this era of posthumanism, an issue that is also taken up is whether it is only humans who have agency. The article then discusses educational practices that could support learner agency. Finally, the article closes with a discussion of agency and ethical action. (Verlag).
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Update	2022/2