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S161 1/3 | Study abroad as a multilingual, intercultural and transnational experience

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Study abroad is a complex educational experience, with potential to support academic, linguistic, personal and intercultural development. Traditionally, applied linguistics research has concentrated on SA as an opportunity for second language acquisition by instructed learners, with a focus on single languages (English, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese etc). However in practice study abroad today takes place in multilingual and multicultural environments, and involves students from increasingly diverse transnational backgrounds. Much less is known about the likely impact of such complex experiences on student development (e.g. whether they experience multilingualism and/ or interculturality as a series of separate linguistic and cultural encounters, or as an integrated whole). This symposium therefore invites contributions from researchers interested in the impact of contemporary study abroad experiences on: students' evolving multilingualism including development in individual languages plus interactions between home languages, local languages, English as a lingua franca students' beliefs, language attitudes and multilingual identity students' intercultural and transnational orientation students' personal development in terms of agency, self-regulation and autonomy. As well as reporting their empirical research, contributors will be asked to reflect on their theoretical contribution to the understanding of SA, and/or to the educational support frameworks which can maximise students' development in contemporary SA settings.

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Virtual Session Symposium
August 16, 2021 08:30 AM - August 16, 2022 12:00 Noon(Europe/Amsterdam)
Venue : Room 1
20210816T0830 20210816T1200 Europe/Amsterdam S161 1/3 | Study abroad as a multilingual, intercultural and transnational experience

Study abroad is a complex educational experience, with potential to support academic, linguistic, personal and intercultural development. Traditionally, applied linguistics research has concentrated on SA as an opportunity for second language acquisition by instructed learners, with a focus on single languages (English, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese etc). However in practice study abroad today takes place in multilingual and multicultural environments, and involves students from increasingly diverse transnational backgrounds. Much less is known about the likely impact of such complex experiences on student development (e.g. whether they experience multilingualism and/ or interculturality as a series of separate linguistic and cultural encounters, or as an integrated whole). This symposium therefore invites contributions from researchers interested in the impact of contemporary study abroad experiences on: students' evolving multilingualism including development in individual languages plus interactions between home languages, local languages, English as a lingua franca students' beliefs, language attitudes and multilingual identity students' intercultural and transnational orientation students' personal development in terms of agency, self-regulation and autonomy. As well as reporting their empirical research, contributors will be asked to reflect on their theoretical contribution to the understanding of SA, and/or to the educational support frameworks which can maximise students' development in contemporary SA settings.

S161 detailed programme, click here

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