Description
Book SynopsisThis book unites a range of emerging topics in the burgeoning transdisciplinary fields of second language acquisition and interculturality in a study abroad context. It explores key issues, trends and approaches within each strand and how the strands relate to one another, painting a big picture of the diversity and complexity underpinning second language acquisition in a study abroad context. The chapters highlight themes such as social networks, input and interaction issues, learner identities and study abroad in lingua franca contexts, while also presenting other themes spanning the breadth of second language acquisition and interculturality research, such as individual differences and linguistic development. This comprehensive and cohesive volume showcases the latest innovative research using quantitative, qualitative and mixed method approaches across a range of source and target language learner cohorts, and highlights emerging themes and directions for future research.
Trade ReviewIn this informative and timely volume highly respected international researchers provide answers to important issues related to interculturality and study abroad, as well as suggestions on how to move the field forward. Practitioners and researchers alike will find in this volume an excellent resource for the study of linguistic and personal development in immersive contexts. * Christina Sanz, Georgetown University, USA *
This volume makes an important contribution to the literature concerned with language learning and intercultural development during study abroad. The mix of well-designed empirical studies and thought-provoking essays offers new insights, puts forth innovative approaches, and critically examines concepts, methods, and discourses. It is essential reading for scholars, graduate students, and study abroad administrators. * Rachel L. Shively, Illinois State University, USA *
This volume offers a fresh perspective on the development of linguistic and intercultural competence in study abroad (SA) settings. Empirical and thematic overview contributions by international scholars on changes in attitudes/perceptions, identity development, input and social network analysis, effects of long-term residence abroad, and individual differences provide a unique, in-depth understanding of factors at play during learners’ development of linguistic/intercultural competence in SA contexts. * Barbara A. Lafford, Arizona State University, USA *
Table of ContentsIntroduction. Martin Howard: Second Language Acquisition and Interculturality During Study Abroad: Issues and Perspectives. An Introduction to the Volume
Chapter 1. Jane Jackson: “Cantonese is my own eyes and English is just my glasses:” The Evolving Language and Intercultural Attitudes of a Chinese Study Abroad Student
Chapter 2. Sònia Mas-Alcolea: Study Abroad and the Students’ Discourse on ‘Cultural Difference’: A Longitudinal View
Chapter 3. Tiina Räisänen: Discursive Identity Work and Interculturality During Blue-collar Work Practice Abroad: Finnish Engineering Students as Language Learners and Users
Chapter 4. Leah Geoghegan and Carmen Pérez-Vidal:English as a Lingua Franca, Motivation, and Identity in Study Abroad
Chapter 5. Àngels Llanes: Study Abroad as a Context for Learning English as an International Language: An Exploratory Study
Chapter 6. Fanny Forsberg Lundell: Long-term Residence Abroad and SLA: The Case of Cultural Migrants in France
Chapter 7. Rebekah Rast: What First Exposure Studies of Input can Contribute to Study Abroad Research
Chapter 8. Rozenn Gautier: Understanding Socialisation and Integration through Social Network Analysis: American and Chinese Students During a Stay Abroad
Chapter 9. Noriko Iwasaki: Individual Differences in Study Abroad Research: Sources, Processes and Outcomes of Students’ Development in Language, Culture and Personhood
Chapter 10. Celeste Kinginger: Four Questions for the Next Generation of Study Abroad Researchers
