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The identity approach

to SLA

Imagined communities- Imagined Identity

Investment in real or imagined communities are important to SLA

Motivation and Investment

Learners are motivated by inherent and extrinsic fastors

Learner's investment through cultural capital, identity and desire

Essential terms:

Language- Identity

Investment VS Motivation

Imagined communities-Imagined Identity

Theoretical principles of the identity approach

Supporting findings

Mckay and Wong (1996)

Wenger (1998)

Norton (2000)

Skylton- Sylvester (2002)

Theoretical principles of the identity approach

Poststructuralist Theories of language

Power Relations in language

Sociocultural Theories of Learning