Ghanaian multilinguals on study abroad in Tanzania : learning Swahili through Akan/Twi and cultures of storytelling / Jamie A Thomas -- An Afro-Dominican-American woman's experience translanguaging race, ethnicity, and cultural heritage learning Portuguese in Brazil / Uju Anya -- An investigation of L2 learning peer interactions in short term study abroad / Janice McGregor -- Monolingual expectations and plurilingual realities in Arabic study abroad / Emma Trentman -- Language use, class, and study abroad in China / Wenhao Diao -- "Sorry, I don't speak any English" : an activity-theoretic account of language choice in study abroad in South Korea / Lucien Brown -- Study abroad as a transformative translanguaging space for heritage speakers of Spanish / Tracy Quan -- Encountering multilingualism in study abroad : sojourners' orientations to linguistic diversity and language hierarchies in Barcelona / Brandon Tullock -- What next in study abroad research / Lourdes Ortega.
Summary:
"This book addresses the multilingual reality of study abroad across a variety of national contexts and target languages. The chapters examine multilingual socialization and translanguaging; how the target language is entwined in global, local and historical contexts; and how students use local and global varieties of English"-- Provided by publisher.
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