Language Learning Digital Communications and Study Abroad

Language Learning  Digital Communications and Study Abroad
Author: Levi Durbidge
Publsiher: Channel View Publications
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2024-07-16
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781800415072

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This book argues for a view of study abroad as emergent of, and negotiated through, tensions between localised and globalised imaginaries of language, identity and place. By examining the experiences of a group of Japanese high school students during, and after, a year embedded in families and schools abroad in countries across Europe, Asia and North and South America, it provides the first in-depth exploration of the role of mobile communications technology in study abroad. This includes its facilitation of strategic language learning, host community participation and the construction of multilingual identities. The student accounts covered in this book explore a number of other critical issues in contemporary study abroad, including translanguaging practices, racialised identities, the role of the host family and the status of English as a lingua franca in multilingual environments. The results demonstrate the importance of understanding study abroad and related language learning as intersecting with global flows of people and information.

Language Identity and Study Abroad

Language  Identity  and Study Abroad
Author: Jane Jackson
Publsiher: Equinox Publishing (UK)
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2008
Genre: Education
ISBN: UOM:39015082766893

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This book is based on the premise that student sojourners and educators can benefit from a deeper understanding of the language, identity, and cultural factors that impact on the development of intercultural communicative competence and intercultural personhood.

Study Abroad Contexts for Enhanced Foreign Language Learning

Study Abroad Contexts for Enhanced Foreign Language Learning
Author: Velliaris, Donna M.
Publsiher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2018-04-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781522538158

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Popular opinion has long assumed that learning a foreign language requires not only traditional classroom instruction but also immersion among native speakers of the language. This opinion is so strongly held that students who study through immersion are believed to become more proficient than those who do not. Study Abroad Contexts for Enhanced Foreign Language Learning is a critical scholarly publication that explores the importance and efficacy of international travel in the learning of a second or additional language. Including various topics such as auditory-orthographic training, grammatical ability, and learner autonomy, this book is geared toward academicians, students, and professionals seeking current and relevant research on language acquisition through immersion and its value.

Language Learners in Study Abroad Contexts

Language Learners in Study Abroad Contexts
Author: Margaret A. DuFon,Eton E. Churchill
Publsiher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2006-01-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781847699503

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Examining the overseas experience of language learners in diverse contexts through a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, studies in this volume look at the acquisition of language use, socialization processes, learner motivation, identity and learning strategies. In this way, the volume offers a privileged window into learner experiences abroad while addressing current concerns central to second language acquisition.

Researching Second Language Acquisition in the Study Abroad Learning Environment

Researching Second Language Acquisition in the Study Abroad Learning Environment
Author: Christina L. Isabelli-García,Casilde A. Isabelli
Publsiher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2019-09-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9783030251574

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This book is intended to introduce novice student researchers to second language acquisition in the study abroad learning environment. It reviews the existing literature and provides the emerging researcher an overview of the important factors to consider, informs them where to begin, and how to move forth an agenda for future research in this field. The book recognizes that aside from the academic advantages, study abroad programmes are an excellent tool for fostering extended and relevant interaction with native speakers. It provides reflection questions and activities, and guides the novice researcher in critically analysing existing research and to eventually carry out their own study. The book will be of use to beginning researchers who are new to linguistics in the areas of study abroad and second language acquisition.

Language Acquisition in Study Abroad and Formal Instruction Contexts

Language Acquisition in Study Abroad and Formal Instruction Contexts
Author: Carmen Pérez-Vidal
Publsiher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2014-07-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789027270238

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This publication constitutes essential reading for academics, teachers and language policy makers wanting to understand, plan, and implement an educational language program involving learner mobility. The book provides data and analyses from a long-term program of research on study abroad (the SALA Project), which looked into the short and long-term effects of instructional and mobility contexts on language and cultural development from two perspectives: the participants’ language acquisition development over 2,5 years, and the practitioners’ perspective in relation to the design and implementation of a mobility program. The book is innovative in the longitudinal data it offers, the light it sheds on (i) an array of language skills, both productive and receptive, oral and written, tapping into phonology, lexis, grammar and discourse, (ii) the role of individual differences (including attitudes, motivation, beliefs, and intercultural awareness), and (iii) the insights on the effects of length of stay. In sum, this book represents a welcome addition to previous research on the outcomes of mobility policies to promote L2 learners’ linguistic development and the individual and educational conditions that appear to facilitate success in study abroad programs.

Documenting the American Student Abroad

Documenting the American Student Abroad
Author: Kelly Hankin
Publsiher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2021-01-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781978807709

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1 in 10 undergraduates in the US will study abroad. Extoled by students as personally transformative and celebrated in academia for fostering cross-cultural understanding, study abroad is also promoted by the US government as a form of cultural diplomacy and a bridge to future participation in the global marketplace. In Documenting the American Student Abroad, Kelly Hankin explores the documentary media cultures that shape these beliefs, drawing our attention to the broad range of stakeholders and documentary modes involved in defining the core values and practices of study abroad. From study abroad video contests and a F.B.I. produced docudrama about student espionage to reality television inspired educational documentaries and docudramas about Amanda Knox, Hankin shows how the institutional values of "global citizenship," "intercultural communication," and "cultural immersion" emerge in contradictory ways through their representation. By bringing study abroad and media studies into conversation with one another, Documenting the American Student Abroad: The Media Cultures of International Education offers a much needed humanist contribution to the field of international education, as well as a unique approach to the growing scholarship on the intersection of media and institutions. As study abroad practitioners and students increase their engagement with moving images and digital environments, the insights of media scholars are essential for helping the field understand how the mediation of study abroad rhetoric shapes rather than reflects the field's central institutional ideals

Using digital resources to enhance language learning case studies in Italian

Using digital resources to enhance language learning     case studies in Italian
Author: Rosalba Biasini,Anna Proudfoot
Publsiher: Research-publishing.net
Total Pages: 119
Release: 2018-07-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9782490057122

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A group of Italian language tutors attended sessions dedicated to Italian language teaching and learning that were included in the SIS Biennial Conference in 2015. Following the conference, the group suggested that a publication of the proceedings to mark the first of these meetings would be a useful resource for all language tutors. To five of the original papers presented in Oxford, another three were added in order to include a range of ideas and experiences in one publication.