Examines the relationship between gender identity and second language learning from a variety of perspectives, which share a basic grounding in sociocultural theories of learning and post-structural theories of language. This work presents a range of approaches to questions regarding the role of gender identity in a set of distinct local contexts.

Volume 3, Number 4, 2004Contents: J. Langman, (Re)Constructing Gender in a New Voice: An Introduction. ARTICLES:E. Skapoulli, Gender Codes at Odds and the Linguistic Construction of a Hybrid Identity. G. Vitanova, Gender Enactments in Immigrants' Discursive Practices: Bringing Bakhtin to the Dialogue. D. Warriner, "The Days Now Is Very Hard for My Family": The Negotiation and Construction of Gendered Work Identities Among Newly Arrived Women Refugees. J. Menard-Warwick, "I Always Had the Desire to Progress a Little": Gendered Narratives of Immigrant Language Learners. BOOK REVIEWS:M. Teutsch-Dwyer,Bilingual Couples Talk: The Discursive Construction of Hybridity, by Igrid Piller. A. Pavlenko,The Verbal Communication of Emotions: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, by Susan Fussell (Ed.).