My son is studying in Germany and we went to visit him last week. We met in Dusseldorf and went to a museum about the state he is living in and there was an interesting section on immigration into the state. Language was often an important issue and this is one of the captions.
It is interesting that she believed that "language is a key to life in Germany". They are described as learning German from dictionaries, which no teacher training course on language teaching would recommend. However, this seems to show how important having investment in wanting to learn a language is (Norton 2010). These people have a real investment in the imagined community they want to join.
Norton B (2010) "Identity, Literacy, and English-LanguageTeaching" TESL CANADA JOURNAL/REVUE TESL DU CANADA1VOL. 28, NO 1, WINTER 2010