L2 investment: An Argentine Case Study

• In Event: AERA Graduate Student Research-in-Progress Roundtable Session 2
  In Roundtable Session: Language Learner Educational Experiences: Listening Anxiety, Identity, Efficacy, Accessibility, and Investment (Table 8)

Abstract

This study explores the applicability of Darvin and Norton's (2015) investment model of language learning to Argentine adolescents in a bilingual educational setting. Using a dual case study to understand student experiences and practices, the study seeks to understand the degree to which ideology, identity and capital inform students' actual language practice, and their imagined futures. It also probes students' perceived benefits from investment in language learning. In particular, it looks at how changing use of digital technologies shapes students' current language practices and future investment with regard to real and imagined social, cultural and economic capital.

Author

• Sarah Reiley, Michigan State University