Investment and Language Learning in the 21st Century
Investment and Language Learning in the 21st Century
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21世纪的投资和语言学习
DOI:
10.3917/ls.157.0019
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发表时间:
2016
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2
通讯作者:
B. Norton
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作者:
Ron Darvin;B. Norton
This article examines the construct of investment in language learning, developed by Bonny Norton from the mid 1990s (Norton Peirce, 1995; Norton, 2000; 2013), and expanded in more recent research with Ron Darvin (Darvin & Norton, 2015). A sociological complement to the psychological construct of motivation, investment has become a pivotal construct in applied linguistics and language education (Kramsch, 2013), and makes visible the relations of power that enable or constrain language learning and teaching. The paper focuses on Darvin and Norton’s expanded model of investment, which responds to changes in the communicative landscape spurred by technology. Seeking to address the paradoxes of globalization and the invisible mechanisms of power in the knowledge economy, the model locates investment at the intersection of identity, capital and ideology. As such, it provides an important elaboration of the ways in which the right to speak needs to be understood as materially and ideologically constructed. Drawing on data from learners in Canada and Uganda, the paper demonstrates how investment is shaped by the positioning of learners, their negotiation of learning affordances, and the systemic patterns of control that impinge on their agency. The paper concludes that a critical pedagogy promoting a cosmopolitan future may enhance the investments of language learners in the language and literacy practices of classrooms in the 21st century.
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发表时间:
2011
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作者:
Marmefelt
通讯作者:
Marmefelt