Motivation and investment

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 academic subject English. Economics students (34 total) completed oral elicitation task and monologues yielded analysed using thematic analysis. Three dominant themes emerged: (1) right fit for me ; (2) To practise my English (3) comes with benefits . Each these presented as composite description students’ ideas about choice from temporal position here-and-now, explored distinct but complementary social psychological sociological lenses. finds threads running narratives near effortlessness choose learn this way, well understanding capital value For some, sole stated motive was develop preserve linguistic asset.