(Re)constructing gender in a new voice: a special issue of the Journal of language, identity, and education

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The articles in this special issue examine the relationship between gender identity and second language learning from a variety of perspectives, all of which share a basic grounding in sociocultural theories of learning and poststructural theories of language. (Re)constructing Gender in a New Voice presents a range of approaches to questions Abstract: The articles in this special issue examine the relationship between gender identity and second language learning from a variety of perspectives, all of which share a basic grounding in sociocultural theories of learning and poststructural theories of language. (Re)constructing Gender in a New Voice presents a range of approaches to questions Content: (Re)constructing Gender in a New Voice: An Introduction, ARTICLES, Gender Codes at Odds and the Linguistic Construction of a Hybrid Identity, Gender Enactments in Immigrants' Discursive Practices: Bringing Bakhtin to the Dialogue, "The Days Now Is Very Hard for My Family": The Negotiation and Construction of Gendered Work Identities Among Newly Arrived Women Refugees, "I Always Had the Desire to Progress a Little": Gendered Narratives of Immigrant Language Learners, BOOK REVIEWS, Bilingual Couples Talk: The Discursive Construction of Hybridity, by Ingrid Piller, The Verbal Communication of Emotions: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, by Susan Fussell (Ed.), Acknowledgments