Challenges and Prospects in Second Language Enrolment

A Tasmanian Case Study
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-981-950194-6
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

Reihe: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects

This book provides a contextual examination of the factors that affect students’ elective second language (L2) study in Australia. It investigates why Tasmanian students do or do not choose to enrol in an elective second language at school and explores relationship of motivational factors that affect their decisions. This is a case study of one education system, but the findings are relevant to others globally.

With the field of L2 research turning attention to motivations around languages other than English (LOTEs), this book provides a unique account of adolescent students’ LOTE experiences in an Anglophone setting. It demonstrates there is a complex ensemble of factors that affect subject choice and enrolment decisions regarding elective second language learning. In the face of Global English, these findings address a gap in the research of adolescent LOTE learners, the majority of who have English as a first language, and thus motivations for language learning vastly differ from those wanting to learn English as an additional language.

The findings outlined in this book are valuable as they consider the practical implications for school language programmes. This book will be of interest to scholars, teachers, and policy makers globally wishing to gain further insight into motivational factors affecting L2 enrolment.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Richey, Stephanie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Curricula: Planung und Entwicklung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1 - Introduction.- 1 Overview, Context and Background .- Part 2 – Languages education and motivation.- 2 Languages Education in Context.- 3 Language Education Challenges and Factors.- 4. Exploring the Language Learning Motivation Research Feild.- Part 3 – Findings from the case study .- 5. Why Students Do Enrol in Elective LOTEs.- 6. Why Students Do Not Enrol in Elective LOTEs.- Part 4 – Addressing the challenges.- 7. Language Learning Barriers and Attitudes.- 8. Hurdles and Horizons: Insights, Implications and Future Directions.

Über Autor(innen)

Stephanie Richey  is a researcher and lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Tasmania (UTAS). She enjoys the rich cross-discipline collegiality of her regional Cradle Coast Campus, in the North West of Tasmania, where she completed both her Bachelor of Education (First Class Honours) and PhD. She is passionate about access to languages education for everyone, but especially students, and her research focuses on Anglophone language learners’ motivation for and attitudes towards learning additional languages. Her other key research area is in the field of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), primarily focusing on enhancing Higher Education (HE) student participation, engagement, and retention. Her teaching now focuses on helping first-year Initial Teacher Education (ITE) students develop academic literacy skills for their tertiary studies.