Study Abroad and Second Language Use : Constructing the Self /

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-presenta...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pellegrino Aveni, Valerie A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Temas:
Foreign study.
Language and languages > Study and teaching.
Self-presentation.
Langage et langues > Étude et enseignement.
Présentation de soi.
Études à l'étranger.
Auslandsaufenthalt
Fremdsprachenstudium
Ungesteuerter Zweitsprachenerwerb
Tweedetaalverwerving.
Interpersoonlijke communicatie.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on text conventions
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1 Language use in a social context
  • Language and self
  • Defining the self
  • Language use and social influence
  • Constructing the self in the foreign environment
  • The threat of L2 use: risk and anxiety
  • Communicative goals
  • Self-presentation and goals for second language use
  • Types of communicative goals
  • Communicative need for L2 use
  • Personal responsibility for goal achievement.
  • 2 The social dance: second language use and the construction of self
  • Constructing the self: social hierarchy and social distance
  • Social hierarchy
  • Status
  • Control
  • Social distance
  • Validation
  • Safety
  • 3 Learners and their environment: factors affecting self-construction
  • Social-environmental cues
  • Caretaker behaviors and attitudes
  • Persona of others
  • Learner-internal cues
  • Attitudes toward the self
  • Self-comparison
  • Predictability of consequences
  • The whole picture: interactivity of cues
  • 4 Coming into our own: the convergence of real self and ideal self.
  • Balancing learner-internal cues and social-environmental stimuli
  • Progressive development of internal security
  • Improvement of actual or perceived L2 proficiency
  • Devaluing potentially negative consequences
  • Development of security-protecting strategies
  • Conclusion: the self in the second language: implications and next steps
  • Appendix 1 Study context and research methodology
  • Appendix 2 ACTR study-abroad program participants: 1995
  • 1996 demographic profile
  • Appendix 3 Participant profiles
  • References
  • Index.

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