The relationship between imagined communities and investment of multilingual students.

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https://doi.org/10.14482/zp.25.9796

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multilingual learners, imagined communities, qualitative methodology

Abstract

Three multi- language learners describe their needs and desires in light of the foreign languages they were studying. In- depth interviews were carried out and analyzed via thematic analysis and by using a rubric measuring learners’ levels of investment. Findings show a relationship between their desire of being part of an imagined community related to the language under study and their future projections of themselves as speakers of the that language. A further finding was that these projections differed according to the language under study. In addition, the results showed that the more multilingual learners appropriate that target language or imagined community (Anderson, 1991), the more they raise their levels of investment in the languages of study.

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  • Francisco Javier López Armendáriz, Departamento de Lenguas Extranjeras Universidad de Sonora

    Maestro de Horas Sueltas Indeterminado

    Departamento de Lenguas Extranjeras

    Universidad de Sonora

  • Nolvia Ana Cortez, Departamento de Lenguas ExtranjerasUniversidad de Sonora

    Maestra de Tiempo Completo

    Departamento de Lenguas Extranjeras

    Universidad de Sonora

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Published

2016-12-16

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No. 25 (2016)

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