Identity and a Model of Investment in Applied Linguistics

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“The model recognizes that the spaces in which language acquisition and socialization take place have become increasingly deterritorialized and unbounded, and the systemic patterns of control more invisible.”

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“The model addresses the needs of learners who navigate their way through online and offline contexts and perform identities that have become more fluid and complex.”

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“it proposes a comprehensive model of investment, which occurs at the intersection of identity, ideology, and capital.”

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“Not only is her own economic capital limited, but also the technological infrastructure of her local context is poorly resourced.”

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“Indeed, his possession of economic, cultural, and social capital and his identity as a member of a highly industrialized country allow him to position himself as a legitimate participant and contributor in the different affinity spaces he occupies online.”

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“The social position of Ayrton as part of a privileged class in a highly industrialized country has made technology natural, providing him with all the affordances of learning.”

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“As presented above, the model we propose responds to the demands and realities of the new world order, locating investment at the intersection of identity, capital, and ideology.”

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“Recognizing how power flows in different directions through these contiguous spaces, learners operating in different fields perform multiple identities.”

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“Governed by different ideologies and possessing varying levels of capital, learners position themselves and are positioned by others in different contexts.”

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“Recognizing that they have the agency to assert their own identities, learners are able to negotiate symbolic capital, reframe relations of power, and challenge normative ways of thinking, in order to claim the right to speak.”

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“It is Henrietta's investment in this imagined identity that will determine to what extent she will invest in the digital literacy practices of the course.”

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“In contrast to Henrietta's aspiration to communicate with other people, Ayrton's investment in the imagined identity of a currency trader is much more concrete.Its realization comes with more tangible measurements of success and translates into the accumulation of economic capital.”

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“In this model, learners invest in particular practices not only because they desire specific material or symbolic benefits, but also because they recognize that the capital they possess can serve as affordances to their learning.”

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“What this model seeks to do is to elucidate further that identity is a struggle of habitus and desire, of competing ideologies and imagined identities.”

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“Earlier research that drew on Norton's constructs of identity and investment was focused on language learning research in the North American context and focused on the learner and the learning context.”

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“This article locates Norton's foundational work on identity and investment within the social turn of applied linguistics.It discusses its historical impetus and theoretical anchors, and it illustrates how these ideas have been taken up in recent scholarship.”

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“Drawing on two case studies of a female language learner in rural Uganda and a male language learner in urban Canada, the model illustrates how structure and agency, operating across time and space, can accord or refuse learners the power to speak.”

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“For Bourdieu (1986), capital is power and it extends from the material/economic to the cultural and social: Economic capital refers to wealth, property, and income; cultural capital refers to knowledge, educational credentials, and appreciation of specific cultural forms; and social capital refers to connections to networks of power.”

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  cites Bourdieu (1986)

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“Duchêne, Moyer, and Roberts (2013) point out that while "the discourses of globalization and neoliberalism are ones of 'mobility,' 'flows,' 'flexibility' and 'de-regulation,' many of the practices entailed in globalization are of control and regimentation" (p.9).”

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• ?Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Duchêne, Moyer, and Roberts (2013)

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“De Costa (2010) asserts the need for an ideology-based theoretical framework.”

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“Built around these ideas, this model extends the question, "To what extent are learners invested in the language and literacy practices of their classrooms and communities?" to include the following:”

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“The conception of identity in this model still aligns well with the theoretical underpinnings of Norton's (2013) work, which defines identity as multiple, a site of struggle, and continually changing over time and space.”

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  cites Norton's (2013)

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“As globalization accelerates the flow of goods, people, ideas, and resources (Appadurai, 1990), the lived realities of learners have also become more complex and fraught with contradictions.”

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• ?Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Appadurai, 1990 source