Investigating Investments on Non-Native English Speaking Teacher Identity of Non-Dominant Language Speakers

Date of Award

12-1-2022

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts major in English Language and Literature Teaching (Option I-Thesis)

First Advisor

Maria Isabel P. Martin, PhD

Abstract

Due to the benefits the English language offers in the global community, priority is mostly given to investment in the English language here in the Philippines. Thus, this study focused on three Non-dominant language (NDL) speakers who invested to gain a non- native English-speaking teacher (NNEST) identity. It investigated their processes of investment in the English language through an online interview using the lens of Norton’s Theory of Investment. With the investment done by the NDL speakers, they were able to reach their imagined identity as they received a high return on their economic, social, and cultural capital, and gained power and privilege through acquiring NNEST identity. This study revealed that as they invest more in their NNEST identity, their NDL identity slowly diminishes. This is due to the strong ideology about the privileges the English language brings that roams around their academic surroundings that threatens their NDL identity and not the language itself.

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