Gendering the ‘learner’: Sexual harassment and second language acquisition

I Meant to Say That: How Adult Language Learners Construct Positive Identities Through Nonstandard Language Use

“…This may have been one reason why she had negative feelings about variants of Japanese women's language that to her seemed childish or passive. Ehrlich's (2000) overview of studies that document the sexual harassment or abuse of female AL learners indicates clearly that such experiences are not uncommon.…”