Discourse and Identity among ESL Learners: A Case Study of a Community College ESL Classroom

We guess there would be little debate among educators that a key goal in null schooling process is to help students to thrive academically null they grow into null life around them (to take a phrase from Vygotsky [1978]), and, null individuals with their own sets of experiences, to find in their classes supportive places to do so. Debate occurs when we ask what students need to learn, and how they need to be learning, in order to achieve these...