
Language Learning, Digital Communications and Study Abroad
Identity and Belonging in Translocal Contexts
- 216 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Language Learning, Digital Communications and Study Abroad
Identity and Belonging in Translocal Contexts
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Transcription Conventions
- Introduction
- 1 Digital Sociality, Immersion and Translocality
- 2 Approach and Participants
- 3 Nikko: Translingual Participation In and Beyond Hungary
- 4 Nagisa: Translocal Ties and Online Identity in Brazil
- 5 Megumi: Racialisation and Marginalisation in Germany
- 6 Manabu: Negotiating Multilingual Identity in Francophone Canada
- 7 Misa: Social Support and Language Learning in the US Midwest
- 8 Translocal Language Learning and Belonging during and beyond Study Abroad
- References
- Index