Social and cultural aspects of language learning in study abroad
Title:
Social and cultural aspects of language learning in study abroad
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Celeste Kinginger, Pennsylvania State University.
Publication Information:
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2013]
Physical Description:
1 online resource (viii, 344 pages) : illustrations
ISBN:
9789027271839
Abstract:
This chapter seeks to demonstrate some of the potential contributions of a corpus-based approach to study abroad research. Drawing on the Spanish Learner Language Oral Corpora, the present analysis examines a set of vague expressions known as general extenders (GEs) (Overstreet 1999) utilized by undergraduate English L1 learners after a year abroad. Specifically, the analysis focuses on patterns emergent from the concordancing analysis of learner language production alongside four exploratory case studies of learners' motives and dispositions towards their study abroad experience. The discussi.
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Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents:
Introduction : Social and cultural aspects of language learning in study abroad / Celeste Kinginger -- Researching whole people and whole lives / James A. Coleman -- Self-regulatory strategies of foreign language learners : from the classroom to study abroad and beyond / Heather Willis Allen -- "Opening up to the world"? Developing interculturality in an international field experience for ESL teachers / Elizabeth Smolcic -- Politics of identification in the use of lingua francas in student mobility to Finland and France / Fred Dervin -- An American in Paris : myth, desire, and subjectivity in one student's account of study abroad in France / Tim Wolcott -- Exploring the potential of high school homestays as a context for local engagement and negotiation of difference : Americans in China / Dali Tan & Celeste Kinginger -- The transformation of "a frog in the well" : a path to a more intercultural, global mindset / Jane Jackson -- "I joke you don't" : second language humor and intercultural identity construction / Maria Shardakova -- Getting over the hedge : acquisition of mitigating language in L2 Japanese / Noriko Iwasaki -- Identity and honorifics use in Korean study abroad / Lucien Brown -- A corpus-based study of vague language use by learners of Spanish in a study abroad context / Julieta Fernandez.
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