Notions of Identity and Investment in Second Language Acquisition: Bangladeshi Indigenous Students’ Perspectives

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  • Ghazi Shahadat Hossain Assistant Professor, English language and literature, Premier University, Chittagong, Bangladesh

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3126/nelta.v28i1.61642

Keywords:

SLA, Indigenous Students, Narrative Inquiry, Bangladesh, Investment, Identity

Abstract

Identity and investment are closely related to second language learning in many contexts. Many studies have been done on how second language learning aff ects the identity and investment of second language learners. Banking on the theory of identity, this article investigates how and why Bangladeshi students, belonging to indigenous communities, invest in second language learning and how their investment in L2 is linked to their agency. The study adopted an interpretative qualitative research paradigm and more precisely, utilized narrative inquiry as a research method to explore the lived experiences situated in a particular time, space and context. The findings exhibit that Bangladeshi ethnic students have made financial, physical, psychological and academic investments to own the linguistic, cultural and symbolic capital of English as a second language and such investment seems to be impacted by factors such as generating new identities (real or imagined), agency, neoliberalism and social justice. The research findings tend to have implications for second language teachers, researchers, SLA curriculum and material designers and other stakeholders in the Bangladeshi context or elsewhere.

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Author Biography

Ghazi Shahadat Hossain, Assistant Professor, English language and literature, Premier University, Chittagong, Bangladesh

Ghazi Shahadat Hossain has been working as an assistant professor of English language and literature at Premier University, Chittagong and currently, he is also serving as teaching staff at UTS College, University of Technology, Sydney. He did his Hons and Masters in English literature from Chittagong University and obtained a diploma in TESOL from La Trobe University, Australia. He is also an enrolled student (3rd semester) in the School of Education, Far Western University, Nepal. Apart from his research articles in the national journals of Bangladesh, he has also published in English Language Teaching Forum and Nepalese Linguistics and English Language Teaching Perspectives.

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Published

2023-12-31

How to Cite

Hossain, G. S. (2023). Notions of Identity and Investment in Second Language Acquisition: Bangladeshi Indigenous Students’ Perspectives. Journal of NELTA, 28(1), 48–61. https://doi.org/10.3126/nelta.v28i1.61642

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