L2 progress and changes in participants’ intercultural competence abroad : a study of Flemish sojourners
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- Ana Maria Moreno Bruna (UGent) and Patrick Goethals (UGent)
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- International educational experience is often assumed to provide crucial learning opportunities for intercultural development, second language (L2) proficiency, global-mindedness, and personal growth. However, contemporary studies have challenged the immersion assumption regarding intercultural and linguistic progress abroad, pointing to a need for further investigation of the complex interrelationship of linguistic and intercultural development in SA settings. This study reports on the impact of a semester abroad on 118 Flemish participants’ progress in L2 lexical and pragmatic competence, as well as their intercultural development, conceptualised as Cultural Intelligence (CQ). Results show overall significant progress, except for their extrinsic motivation towards the Erasmus experience and their ability to plan intercultural interactions. While participants’ L2 lexical proficiency did not seem connected to their intercultural development, some links were found between sojourners’ pragmatic competence and changes in their CQ profile. These results show the need to further investigate the influence of language use abroad on participants’ intercultural abilities, as well as the need for additional efforts from home institutions in preparing students for potential intercultural interactions.
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- intercultural competence, second language proficiency, study abroad, Cultural Intelligence
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8704184
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- Moreno Bruna, Ana Maria, and Patrick Goethals. “L2 Progress and Changes in Participants’ Intercultural Competence Abroad : A Study of Flemish Sojourners.” Language, Mobility and Study Abroad in the Contemporary European Context, edited by Rosamond Mitchell and Henry Tyne, Routledge, 2021, pp. 136–53, doi:10.4324/9781003087953-10.
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- Moreno Bruna, A. M., & Goethals, P. (2021). L2 progress and changes in participants’ intercultural competence abroad : a study of Flemish sojourners. In R. Mitchell & H. Tyne (Eds.), Language, mobility and study abroad in the contemporary European context (pp. 136–153). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003087953-10
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- Moreno Bruna, Ana Maria, and Patrick Goethals. 2021. “L2 Progress and Changes in Participants’ Intercultural Competence Abroad : A Study of Flemish Sojourners.” In Language, Mobility and Study Abroad in the Contemporary European Context, edited by Rosamond Mitchell and Henry Tyne, 136–53. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003087953-10.
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- Moreno Bruna, Ana Maria, and Patrick Goethals. 2021. “L2 Progress and Changes in Participants’ Intercultural Competence Abroad : A Study of Flemish Sojourners.” In Language, Mobility and Study Abroad in the Contemporary European Context, ed by. Rosamond Mitchell and Henry Tyne, 136–153. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003087953-10.
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- 1.Moreno Bruna AM, Goethals P. L2 progress and changes in participants’ intercultural competence abroad : a study of Flemish sojourners. In: Mitchell R, Tyne H, editors. Language, mobility and study abroad in the contemporary European context. Routledge; 2021. p. 136–53.
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- [1]A. M. Moreno Bruna and P. Goethals, “L2 progress and changes in participants’ intercultural competence abroad : a study of Flemish sojourners,” in Language, mobility and study abroad in the contemporary European context, R. Mitchell and H. Tyne, Eds. Routledge, 2021, pp. 136–153.
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author = {{Moreno Bruna, Ana Maria and Goethals, Patrick}},
booktitle = {{Language, mobility and study abroad in the contemporary European context}},
editor = {{Mitchell, Rosamond and Tyne, Henry}},
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keywords = {{intercultural competence,second language proficiency,study abroad,Cultural Intelligence}},
language = {{eng}},
pages = {{136--153}},
publisher = {{Routledge}},
series = {{Routledge Studies in Applied Linguistics}},
title = {{L2 progress and changes in participants’ intercultural competence abroad : a study of Flemish sojourners}},
url = {{http://doi.org/10.4324/9781003087953-10}},
year = {{2021}},
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