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INVESTMENT IN A SECOND LANGUAGE – A PREREQUISITE FOR LEARNING A SECOND LANGUAGE AND SHAPING A SOCIOCULTURAL IDENTITY
Rea Lujić
orcid.org/0000-0002-5931-3867
; Sveučilište u Zadru, Zadar, Hrvatska
Sažetak
This paper presents the concept of investment, which was introduced in the mid-nineties to the field of second language learning by Bonny Norton-Pierce. The first part of the paper presents the elements of the theory of cultural production (Bourdieu, 1977; 1991) and poststructuralist feminism (Weedon, 1987) which were used by the creators of the concept (Darvin & Norton, 2015; Norton-Pierce, 1995). This paper defines investment as any activity undertaken by a language learner aiming to learn a second language, and which depends both on his or her wish to invest and a possibility to invest, depending on his or her interlocutor. Any form of investment, and non-investment for that matter, such as resistance or non-participation, depends on learners’ multiple, changeable and discourse-shaped socio-cultural identities and it affects both language learning and learners’ identities. This paper presents different forms of learners’ investment, and the reasons lying behind it, supported by examples from the research undertaken in different learning contexts. Possible implications of the model for second language teaching are presented at the end of the paper.
Ključne riječi
second language learners’ identity; investment
Hrčak ID:
183661
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Datum izdavanja:
19.4.2017.
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