Motivation and investment: exploring the choice of English-medium instruction for mid-degree undergraduates in Catalonia
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- dc.contributor.author Machin, Elizabeth Anne-Marie
- dc.contributor.author Ament, Jennifer
- dc.contributor.author Pérez Vidal, Carmen
- dc.date.accessioned 2023-07-21T06:50:03Z
- dc.date.available 2023-07-21T06:50:03Z
- dc.date.issued 2022
- dc.description.abstract The purpose of the present study is to offer insights into how Spanish undergraduates, who were mid-way through an English-medium programme at a university in Catalonia, articulate their past decision to study an academic subject in English. Economics students (34 in total) completed an oral elicitation task and the monologues yielded were analysed using thematic analysis. Three dominant themes emerged: (1) The right fit for me; (2) To practise my English; and (3) English comes with benefits. Each of these themes is presented as a composite description of the students’ ideas about their past choice from the temporal position of the here-and-now, and explored through distinct but complementary social psychological and sociological lenses. The present study finds threads running through the students’ narratives of a near effortlessness to choose to learn in this way, as well as an understanding of the capital value of English. For some, their sole stated motive was to develop and preserve this linguistic asset.
- dc.description.sponsorship This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under Grant number FFI2013-48640-C2-1P.
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- dc.identifier.citation Machin E, Ament J, Pérez-Vidal C. Motivation and investment: exploring the choice of English-medium instruction for mid-degree undergraduates in Catalonia. J Engl Medium Instr. 2023;2(1):79-100. DOI: 10.1075/jemi.22002.mac
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jemi.22002.mac
- dc.identifier.issn 2666-8882
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/57636
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher John Benjamins Publishing
- dc.relation.ispartof Journal of English-Medium Instruction. 2023;2(1):79-100.
- dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/FFI2013-48640-C2-1P
- dc.rights © John Benjamins Publishing Company. Available under the CC BY 4.0 license.
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- dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- dc.subject.keyword investment theory
- dc.subject.keyword L2 self
- dc.subject.keyword linguistic capital
- dc.subject.keyword narrative identity
- dc.subject.keyword EMI in Spain
- dc.title Motivation and investment: exploring the choice of English-medium instruction for mid-degree undergraduates in Catalonia
- dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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