Exploring Pakistani ESL Learners' Investment Practices in learning the English Language

Abstract

English enjoys the status of a second language (L2) owing to the colonial past and the socioeconomic benefits linked with the instrumental use of the language under globalization. The language is prescribed as compulsory alongside Urdu in the national curriculum right through primary to tertiary education. Nevertheless, the learning outcomes are not synchronous with the attention language receives in education or society. In the past two decades, the social turn in second language acquisition and learning calls to investigate the language learning process in its situated context and the learner-centered approach emphasizes detailed systematic analysis of the learner's needs and