Language Learning, Digital Communications and Study Abroad

Identity and Belonging in Translocal Contexts

By: Levi Durbidge

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Paperback | 16 July 2024

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202 Pages

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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.

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Understandings and discussions of study abroad are thrust into the social media era through these stunning, readable narratives of Japanese adolescents. Revealing experiences of what study abroad now means and how it interconnects with language learning and identity change in digital, social, and material spaces, this book pushes the edge of study abroad research.

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