Ecological Agency in Language Education

Learners, Teachers, Tasks, and Technologies in Sociomaterial Classrooms
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-041-53368-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 166 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Applied Linguistics

This book examines ecological agency in language education, focusing on how learners and teachers navigate complex pedagogical environments shaped by tasks, tools, feedback, classroom histories, institutional conditions, and emerging technologies.

Across seven chapters, the book transitions from a sociomaterial framework for understanding agency to empirical discussions of L2 writing feedback, learner revision, EFL debate curriculum development, and AI-mediated project-based CLIL. It culminates in an integrated model of ecological agency organized around pedagogical mediation, learner alignment, participation ecology, adaptive teaching, and technological governance. The book connects areas such as teacher agency, learner agency, L2 writing, curriculum innovation, CLIL, and AI-mediated learning, demonstrating how agency emerges through situated relations among teachers, learners, texts, materials, and digital tools.

A valuable book for researchers in applied linguistics, TESOL, second language writing, language teacher education, CALL, CLIL, and postgraduate students interested in ecological approaches to language learning.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mishima, Masakazu

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Schreiben und Publizieren, Kreatives Schreiben
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Spracherwerb, Sprachentwicklung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Agency in Language Education: Intellectual Lineages, Empirical Domains, and Unresolved Questions 2. From Individual Capacity to Ecological Agency: An Ensemble of Ecological Approaches 3. Teacher Agency in a Developing L2 Writing Trajectory: Feedback, Judgment, and Reconfiguration 4. Learner Agency in L2 Writing Revision: Coordinating Feedback, Exemplars, and Evaluative Resources 5. Adaptive Participation in EFL Debate: Co-Constructing an Instructional Ecology 6. Redistributing Pedagogical Labor in AI-Mediated Feedback: Teacher Judgment, Delegation, and Reconfiguration 7. Ecological Agency Across Productive Language Education: Cross-Case Synthesis, Model, and Implications

Über Autor(innen)

Masakazu Mishima is an Associate Professor at Rikkyo University, Japan, with over 20 years of expertise in EFL/ESL teaching, curriculum development, academic writing instruction, and applied linguistics research. His research focuses on second language writing, learner and teacher agency, ecological approaches to language education, CLIL, project-based learning, AI-mediated language learning, and language teacher education.