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In the following sections, the conceptual development of agency from (a) sociocultural and (b) poststructuralist and critical perspectives within the field of SLA will be examined in greater detail. These two perspectives, which originated in completely different theoretical settings, both influenced the social turn in SLA research. Unlike psychological research, which focuses on learner characteristics, including motivation, in which agency is regarded as an individual property or attribute that affects human behavior (Oxford, 2003), agency is viewed as socially structured and embedded in social contexts.