{"pk":2199,"title":"Competing Identities, Shifting Investments, and L2 Speaking During Study Abroad","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Why   learners return from study abroad (SA) with varying degrees of second   language (L2) gains or differing attitudes towards the target language and   culture remains an open question. This study employs theories of identity   (Kinginger, 2013) and investment (Darvin & Norton, 2015; Norton Peirce,   1995) to examine the case of three learners of Spanish as they studied abroad   in Spain. Interviews, journals, and language-use surveys were analyzed to   understand how and why these learners’ investment in Spanish and in language   learning opportunities shifted throughout their program. Pre- and post-SA   speaking abilities tests in Spanish were used to measure how participants’   investments related to their L2 speaking development. The three case studies   suggest that participants negotiate competing and fluctuating desires, identities,   and investments that often lead to contradictory behaviors regarding their   language learning and use while abroad. These opposing investments and   identities stem from participants’ expectations of an idealized SA experience   and their belief in the capital (Bourdieu, 1986) that Spanish may offer them   back home and abroad. This study further finds that participants’ ongoing   investment in learning and using Spanish relates to their L2 speaking gains   post-SA.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC-ND 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"identity"},{"word":"Investment"},{"word":"Study abroad"},{"word":"oral fluency"},{"word":"Spanish"}],"section":"Article","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8ch370zj","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Tracy","middle_name":"","last_name":"Quan","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Delaware","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2018-04-10T21:17:59Z","date_accepted":"2018-04-10T21:17:59Z","date_published":"2019-01-02T22:34:53Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/l2/article/2199/galley/1414/download/"}]}