Format:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (200 p.))
,
digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780511620584
Content:
Language plays an essential role in how we portray our personalities. Through social interaction, others develop a picture of us based on our linguistic cues. However, when we interact in a foreign language and in a new country, limitations in linguistic and cultural knowledge can make self-presentation a more difficult task. This book explores the problems faced by language students embarking on 'study abroad' programmes, spending time in a foreign country and having to interact - and express their personalities - in a second language. Drawing on her extensive work with students, Valerie Pellegrino Aveni explores the factors that complicate self-presentation and the strategies students use for overcoming these, looking in particular at issues of anxiety, control, age, gender, risk-taking and self-esteem. Offering rich insights into the study abroad experience, this book will be an invaluable resource for professionals in second language acquisition, and for teachers and students preparing for study abroad
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521827669
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521534949
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Pellegrino Aveni, Valeria A. Study abroad and second language use Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 2005 ISBN 0521827663
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521534941
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521827669
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Fremdsprachenlernen
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511620584
URL:
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