Linguistic Entrepreneurship and Well-being in the Career Development Context

The focus of this book is on the factors shaping adult students' attitudes towards learning English for occupational (business) purposes. It addresses the relatively novel, yet timely and significant, concept of linguistic entrepreneurship in relation to adult language learners in corporate contexts, linking this concept to well-being and career development. At the same time, the book fills an important gap in the still underdeveloped field of Business English teaching methodology, particularly in non-Anglophone environments, offering researchers, teachers, and business practitioners new insights into the mechanisms mediating adult learners' linguistic success, their learning needs, and the barriers they encounter in the learning process.

The book makes three main contributions:
• reframing motivational discourse in adult L2 learning through an entrepreneurial lens;
• empirically demonstrating the connections between learners' entrepreneurial attitudes and their well-being trajectories;
• offering pedagogical implications for language educators working in corporate settings.