ACTS OF AGENCY IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING EXPERIENCE
Abstract
Successful language learners exercise their agency as they experience learning or acquiring the target language. Their agency acts as the push from within themselves; influenced by the need of an end to be fulfilled and the action taken is within the permitted perimeter of the environment. This is evident in the current study on nine international students whose insights were captured through document analysis of their online postings and interviews. Findings revealed that these international students exercised their agency by making relentless efforts in employing language learning strategies despite the challenges they faced to become better learners of the English language. Further findings illustrating agency were investment and imagined community. Although both investment and imagined community concur with existing literature, the findings from this study further highlight ‘experience’ as an impetus for investment in English language learning.
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Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
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Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Noor Saazai Mat Saad
Malaysia
Hamidah Yamat
Malaysia
Hanisa Mohd. Sidek
Malaysia
Hazleena Baharun
Malaysia
Muzhafar Mohd. Idrus
Malaysia
Publication Date
December 18, 2016
Submission Date
December 25, 2016
Acceptance Date
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Published in Issue
Year 2016 Volume: 2 Number: 6
Cited By
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IJAEDU- International E-Journal of Advances in Education
https://doi.org/10.18768/ijaedu.288042