(S)econd (L)anguage (A)ctivity theory: Understanding second language learners as people

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Language learning and study abroad (2018, background): “…to learners and learning argued for a view of learners as agents who ‘actively engage in constructing the terms and conditions of their own learning’ (Lantolf & Pavlenko 2001: 145) and who make choices about how they will participate—or not participate––in communities and practices they encounter.”
Chinese students’ perceptions of English learning affordances and their agency in an English-medium instruction classroom context (2019, background): “In particular, this study draws attention to student agency, the essential role of which in language learning is well-recognised not least in sociocultural theory (Gao 2010; Lantolf and Pavlenko 2001; Toohey and Norton 2003).”
Activity Theory and Language Teacher Agency. (2012, background): “This view makes agency “a contextually enacted way of being in the world” (van Lier, 2008), involving both what is done and how it is understood to be significant (Lantolf & Pavlenko, 2001).”