Imagined community, imagined identity, and investment in language learning: an autoethnographical account

• Main Author: Nghia, Nguyen Xuan
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: H. : ĐHQGHN 2020
• Subjects: Post-structuralism; Language learning; Imagined community; Imagined identity; Investment
• Online Access: http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/89348
• Institution: Vietnam National University, Hanoi

Language learning, viewed through post-structuralist prism, is not the practice of the individual per sebut a social practice characterized by the multiple and changing learner identity in direct contact with inequitable power relations (Norton, 2013). Not always does it deal with the immediate...