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This chapter seeks to demonstrate some of the potential contributions of a corpus-based approach to study abroad research. Drawing on the Spanish Learner Language Oral Corpora, the present analysis examines a set of vague expressions known as general extenders (GEs) (Overstreet 1999) utilized by und...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Kinginger, Celeste, 1959- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2013]
Series:Language learning and language teaching ; v. 37.
Subjects:
Second language acquisition.
Foreign study > Social aspects.
Language and languages > Study and teaching.
Intercultural communication.
Language and culture.
Langue seconde > Acquisition.
Études à l'étranger > Aspect social.
Langage et langues > Étude et enseignement > Allophones.
Langage et culture.
Langage et langues > Étude et enseignement.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > General.
Foreign study > Social aspects
Intercultural communication
Language and culture
Language and languages > Study and teaching > Foreign speakers
Second language acquisition
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:This chapter seeks to demonstrate some of the potential contributions of a corpus-based approach to study abroad research. Drawing on the Spanish Learner Language Oral Corpora, the present analysis examines a set of vague expressions known as general extenders (GEs) (Overstreet 1999) utilized by undergraduate English L1 learners after a year abroad. Specifically, the analysis focuses on patterns emergent from the concordancing analysis of learner language production alongside four exploratory case studies of learners' motives and dispositions towards their study abroad experience. The discussi.
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 344 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027271839
9027271836
ISSN:1569-9471 ;

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