Social and Cultural Aspects of Language Learning in Study Abroad

Abstract

1. Acknowledgement 2. Part I. Orientation 3. Introduction: Social and cultural aspects of language learning in study abroad (by Kinginger, Celeste) 4. Researching whole people and whole lives (by Coleman, James A.) 5. Part II. Qualitative and case studies 6. Self-regulatory strategies of foreign language learners: From the classroom to study abroad and beyond (by Allen, Heather Willis) 7. "Opening up to the world"?: Developing interculturality in an international field experience for ESL teachers (by Smolcic, Elizabeth) 8. Politics of identification in the use of lingua francas in student mobility to Finland and France (by Dervin, Fred) 9. An American in Paris: Myth, desire, and subjectivity in one student's account of study abroad in France (by Wolcott, Timothy) 10. Exploring the potential of high school homestays as a context for local engagement and negotiation of difference: Americans in China (by Tan, Dali) 11. The transformation of "a frog in the well": A path to a more intercultural, global mindset (by Jackson, Jane) 12. Part III. Pragmatics and identity 13. "I joke you don't": Second language humor and intercultural identity construction (by Shardakova, Maria) 14. Getting over the hedge: Acquisition of mitigating language in L2 Japanese (by Iwasaki, Noriko) 15. Identity and honorifics use in Korean study abroad (by Brown, Lucien) 16. A corpus-based study of vague language use by learners of Spanish in a study abroad context (by Fernandez, Julieta) 17. Afterword (by Kinginger, Celeste) 18. Name index 19. Subject index