Language Learners in Study Abroad Contexts

✍ Scribed by Margaret A. DuFon (editor); Eton E. Churchill (editor)

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 343
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Transcription Conventions
1. Evolving Threads in Study Abroad Research
Part 1: The Acquisition of Pragmatic Competence During Study Abroad
2. Learning to Take Leave in Social Conversations: A Diary Study
3. Learning to Say ‘You’ in German: The Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Competence in a Study Abroad Context
Part 2: Interaction and Socialization at the Host Dinner Table
4. The Socialization of Taste during Study Abroad in Indonesia
5. Joint Construction of Folk Beliefs by JFL Learners and Japanese Host Families
6. Norms of Interaction in a Japanese Homestay Setting: Toward a Two-Way Flow of Linguistic and Cultural Resources
Part 3: From Home to School in the Study Abroad Environment
7. Negotiation in a Japanese Study Abroad Setting
8. Variability in the Study Abroad Classroom and Learner Competence
Part 4: The Influence of Individual and Program Variables on SLA Abroad
9. Study Abroad Social Networks, Motivation and Attitudes: Implications for Second Language Acquisition
10. Language Learning Strategies in the Study Abroad Context
References
Index