Book
Language Learning, Digital Communications and Study Abroad: Identity and Belonging in Translocal Contexts
New Perspectives on Language and Education, 120, Multilingual Matters
2024
Abstract
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, racialized 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.
Details
- Title
- Language Learning, Digital Communications and Study Abroad: Identity and Belonging in Translocal Contexts
- Authors
- Levi Durbidge (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Business and Creative Industries
- Series
- New Perspectives on Language and Education; 120
- Publisher
- Multilingual Matters
- Date published
- 2024
- DOI
- 10.21832/durbri5058
- ISBN
- 9781800415041; 9781800415058
- Organisation Unit
- School of Business and Creative Industries
- Language
- Chinese; English; Japanese; Portuguese
- Record Identifier
- 99997298902621
- Output Type
- Book
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