Study Abroad, Second Language Acquisition and Interculturality (eBook)

Martin Howard (Herausgeber)

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2019
Channel View Publications (Verlag)
978-1-78892-416-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This book unites studies on second language acquisition and interculturality in a study abroad context, providing timely perspectives on research in each area while also exploring the interface between them. Chapters highlight innovative themes such as social networks, input matters, learner identities and study abroad in lingua franca contexts.

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This 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.

Autor

lt;p>Martin Howard is Head of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at University College Cork, Ireland. His research interests include study abroad, second language acquisition and sociolinguistics. He is Chair of the European COST Action, ‘Study Abroad Research in European Perspective’.

Inhalt

Introduction. 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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.8.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Second Language Acquisition
• Reihe/Serie: Second Language Acquisition
• Verlagsort: Bristol
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Individual differences • input matters • Interculturality • International education • learner status abroad • Linguistic development • Second Language acquisition • SLA • Study Abroad • study abroad in lingua franca contexts
• ISBN-10: 1-78892-416-9 / 1788924169
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78892-416-0 / 9781788924160