INTERCULTURALITY IN STUDY ABROAD
EDITORIAL DESCRIPTION
This comprehensive volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the key issues and developments in study abroad research and practice with a specific focus on the intercultural and language learning dimensions of the study abroad experience. Rather than looking at individual studies, the book seeks to capture the full complexity of the language learning and intercultural dynamics of study abroad by exploring a wide range of topics of particular interest to study abroad researchers, including the role of individual differences, identity reconstruction and interculturality, the challenges of assessing learning outcomes, and various recent interventions designed to enhance and extend language learning and engagement in these contexts. The volume also takes a step back to look at future directions for study abroad research and offer innovative interventions in study abroad programming that emphasize its intercultural elements. This book is an authoritative resource for study abroad scholars and researchers in such fields as intercultural communication, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and language education.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Interculturality, Language, and Study Abroad: An Introduction
Researching Intercultural Learning in Study Abroad Contexts
Adjustment and Second Language Socialization
Identity, Interculturality, and Study Abroad
Individual Differences and Contextual Elements that Impact Intercultural Learning
Assessment and Evaluation of Intercultural Learning in Study Abroad Contexts
Fostering Intercultural Competence through Study Abroad Programming
Future Directions, Implications and Concerns
References
Glossary
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Jane Jackson is Professor of Applied Linguistics in the English Department at the Chinese University of Hong Kong where she teaches language and intercultural communication/transitions courses at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her previous publications include Introducing Language and Intercultural Communication (2014) and The Routledge Handbook of Language and Intercultural Communication (2011).
Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and holds several professorships in Canada, Luxembourg, and Malaysia. His previous publications include Researching Identity and Interculturality, with Karen Risager (2014) and Reflexivity in Language and Intercultural Education, with Julie S. Byrd Clark (2014).