Language, Mobility and Study Abroad in the Contemporary European Context

Rosamond Mitchell is Emeritus Professor of applied linguistics at the University of Southampton, UK. She has longstanding research interests in second language acquisition and in language in education. Recently her work has focused on study abroad, and its long term consequences for L2 development and maintenance, as well as for language identity.Henry Tyne lectures in applied linguistics at the University of Perpignan, France, where he is also director of the language centre. His main area of research is L2 variation, in particular within the study abroad context. Through his work on variation he has become interested in the potential of corpora for language learning. His publications include Des documents authentiques aux corpus (Didier, 2014, with Alex Boulton).

• List of TablesList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsPrefacePART 1Overviews of the field1.Language and Student Mobility in Europe: An Overview2. International Student Mobility as Transnationalism3. Linguistic Effects of International Student Mobility in European Perspective4. Conceptualising Plurilingual Identity in Study Abroad SettingsPART 2Empirical studies5. Study Abroad and Students' (Lack of) Integration: The Case of Spanish Ghettos in Italy6. Retelling Immersion in France: Opportunities and Affordances in Language Use7. Motivation and Social Integration of Mobile Students: Experiences of Short-Term International Mobility Students at a Lithuanian University8. Peer Interactions and Second Language Learning: The Contributions of Social Network Analysis in Study Abroad vs At-Home Environments9. Self-Efficacy in Managing Intercultural Interactions as an Outcome of Participation in the Erasmus Programme: Evidence From German Exchange Students in the UK10. L2 Progress and Changes in Participants’ Intercultural Competence Abroad: A Study of Flemish Sojourners 11. How Social Interaction Affects Students’ Formulaic Development in L2 German in a Multilingual SA Context: Four Case Studies12. The Impact on Language Identity of a Study Abroad Experience13. The Role of Context in Shaping Narratives of Plurilingual Identity: The Case of Non-Language Majors Studying Abroad 14. The Lived Experience and Linguistic Repertoire of a Slovak Student: Contradictory Dispositions Revealed by Language Portraits15. Learner Engagement and Study Abroad: The Influence of Personal Agency on Sojourner-Host Interaction16. Self-Regulatory Strategy Use and Its Impact on Motivated Language Learning Behaviour and Self-Efficacy in European Study Abroad Contexts17. Extracurricular Language Learning During Study Abroad in LithuaniaPART 318. AfterwordAuthor indexSubject index