Resumen de Disaffection and agentic engagement: ‘Redesigning’ activities to enable authentic self-expression

Alastair Henry, Cecilia Thorsen

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  Demotivation (Dörnyei & Ushioda, 2011) and non-participation (Norton, 2001) characterize negative responses to classroom practice of a generally chronic nature. In this article, focus is directed to negativity that emerges within the context of a particular language developing activity, and which can be understood as a situated response to the activity’s demands. In conceptualizing negative responses at the activity level, disaffection – the negative face of engagement – is a construct of central importance. Drawing on data from a large-scale ethnographic project in secondary English classrooms in Sweden, in this exploratory case study disaffection (Skinner, 2016) is examined in the context of two language developing activities. Analyses reveal that disaffection can transform into active engagement, and that when called upon to perform an inauthentic identity, students can ‘redesign’ activities in ways that enable them to act authentically.

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  Corrigendum:

  Alastair Henry, Cecilia Thorsen (2018). Disaffection and agentic engagement: ‘Redesigning’ activities to enable authentic self-expression, first published online 21 September 2018. DOI: 10.1177/1362168818795976 The purpose of this Corrigendum is to replace the screenshots reproduced in Excerpts 3, 4 and 5 of the above mentioned article with the text below and to remove the related pictures. The authors sincerely apologise for the unintended oversight.

  Excerpt 3 Emil is Sick Hi I’m in the hotel because i am sick today. so i sitting in the hotel and do nothing. I’m looking for tomorrow. They are out in India for look new things. Tomorrow we are going to an restaurant and eat hot food.

  from Emil1 1Source. Post published 28 January 2016 on the Devote.se platform.

  Excerpt 4 Elephantes Helloo Today we have ridden on elephantes. It was very fun but we were very nervous because the elephantes was very big and looked to be dangerous. Everybody joined in.

  We met a Swedish family, they were very kind. It was a mom and her three children. They told us that they have lived here for about two years now and they tink it’s really nice here.

  When we was done with the ride, Emil felt sick and he throw up. So we went back to the hotel as fast as we could.

  It was a cool experience.2 2Source. Post published 17 February 2016 on the Devote.se platform.

  Excerpt 5 Coca Cola Hallo India Hello today I was joined in and ride on the elephants. But i felt sick and trow up. so I went home and drink coca cola and eat. I was angry that I throw up, but what to do… Tomorrow we will just chill.

  From Emil3 3Source. Post published 17 February 2016 on the Devote.se platform.