Language Learning, Digital Communications and Study Abroad , livre ebook

117

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English

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2024

Écrit par
Levi Durbidge

Publié par
Channel View Publications

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2024

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Publié par

Channel View Publications

Date de parution

16 juillet 2024

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9781800415072

Langue

English

First in-depth exploration of the impact of mobile communications technology on language learning in study abroad contexts

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.

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Introduction

Chapter 1. Digital Sociality, Immersion and Translocality

Chapter 2. Approach and Participants

Chapter 3. Nikko: Translingual Participation In and Beyond Hungary

Chapter 4. Nagisa: Tranlocal Ties and Online Identity in Brazil

Chapter 5. Megumi: Racialisation and Marginalisation in Germany

Chapter 6. Manabu: Negotiating Multilingual Identity in Francophone Canada

Chapter 7. Misa: Social Support and Language Learning in the US Midwest

Chapter 8. Translocal Language Learning and Belonging During and Beyond Study Abroad