Confirmed Beliefs or False Assumptions? A Study of Home Stay Experiences in the French Study Abroad Context
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https://doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v21i1.306Keywords:
Study abroad, Home stay, Native speaker, Language acquistion, Education abroad, FrenchAbstract
What has emerged from what might be called the second generation of study abroad research is the questioning of some of the most long-standing beliefs about the study abroad experience itself. The belief that: (1) the amount and frequency of contact that students have with native speakers will increase their language gain; (2) that study abroad assures immersion experiences for students; and (3) that homestay is the richest and most important source of L2 learning are what motivates this study. The purpose of the research described in this article is to help clarify the extent to which either prior assumptions or recent criticism, which casts doubt on these assumptions, may have been exaggerated or if indeed, there is a balance between the two.
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Wilkinson, S. (2002). The omnipresent classroom during summer study abroad: American students in conversation with their French hosts. Modern Language Journal, 86 (2), 157-173.
Block, D. (2007). The rise of identity in SLA research, post Firth and Wagner (1997). The Modern Language Journal, 91 (Focus Issue), 863-876.
Brecht, R., Davidson, D., & Ginsberg, R. (1995). Predicting and Measuring Language Gains in Study Abroad Settings. In B. F. Freed (Ed.), Second language acquisition in a study abroad context (pp. 37-66). Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins.
Carroll, J. (1967). Foreign language proficiency levels attained by language majors near graduation from college. Foreign Language Annals, 1, 131-151.
Cohen, A. D., & Shively, R. L. (2007). Acquisition of requests and apologies in Spanish and French: Impact of study abroad and strategy-building intervention. Modern Language Journal, 91, 189–212.
Coleman, J. (2010, March). Research whole people and whole lives. In C. Kinginger (Chair), The social turn of study abroad research. Invited colloquium at the meeting of American Association for Applied Linguistics, Atlanta, GA.
Collentine, J. (2004). The effects of learning contexts on morphosyntactic and lexical development. Studies in Second Language Acquistion, 26, 227-248.
Collentine, J., & Freed, B. F. (2004). Learning context and its effects on second language acquisition. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 26, 153–171.
Cook, H. M. (2006). Joint construction of folk beliefs by JFL learners and Japanese host families. In M. DuFon and E. Churchill (Eds.).
Language learners in study abroad contexts (pp. 120-150). Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.
Cook, H. M. (2008). Socializing identities through speech style: Learners of Japanese as a foreign language. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.
Diaz-Campos, M. (2004). Context of learning in the acquisition of Spanish second language phonology. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 26, 249-273.
Dings, A. (2007). Developing interactional competence in a second language: A case study of a Spanish language learner. (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). University of Texas, Austin.
Frank, V. (1997) Potential Negative Effects of Homestays, Paper presented at The Middle Atlantic Conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Albany, NY, 22 March 1997.
Freed, B. F. (1995). What makes us think that students who study abroad become fluent? In B. F. Freed (Ed.). Second Language Acquisition in a Study Abroad Context (pp. 123-148). Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins.
Freed, B. F., Dewey, D., Segalowitz, N., & Halter, R. (2004). The language contact profile. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 26, 349-356.
Freed, B. F., Segalowitz, N., & Dewey, D. (2004). Context of learning and second language fluency in French: comparing regular classroom, study abroad and intensive domestic immersion programs. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 26, 275-301.
Graddol, D. (2006). English next. Available from http://www.britishcouncil.org/learning-research-englishnext.htm
Iino, M. (2006). Norms of interaction in a Japanese homestay setting: Toward two-way flow of linguistic and cultural resources. In M. Dufon and E. Churchill (Eds.) Language learners in study abroad contexts (pp. 151-74). Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.
Isabelli-Garcia, C. L. (2006). Study abroad social networks, motivation and attitudes: Implications for SLA. In M. Dufon and E. Churchill (Eds.) Language learners in study abroad contexts (pp. 151-173). Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.
Ishita, M. (2009). Development of interactional competence: Changes in the use of ne. In H. Nguyen and G. Kasper (Eds.), Talk-in-interaction: Multilingual perspectives (pp. 351-385). Honolulu, HI: University of
Hawai’i.
Kinginger, C. (2004). Alice doesn’t live here any more: Foreign language learning and identity reconstruction. In A. Pavlenko and A. Blackledge (Eds.). Negotiations of identities in multilingual contexts (pp. 219-242). Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.
Kinginger, C. (2008). Language learning in study abroad: Case histories of Americans in France. The Modern Language Journal, 92. Monograph.
Kinginger, C. (2009). Language learning and study abroad: A critical reading of research. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
Kinginger, C., & Blattner, G. (2008). Development of sociolinguistic awareness in study abroad. In L. Ortega & Byrnes, H. (Eds.), Longitudinal studies and advanced L2 capacities (pp. 223-246). London, UK: Routledge.
Knight, S. M., & Schmidt-Rinehart, B. C. (2010). Exploring conditions to enhance students/host family interaction abroad. Foreign Language Annals, 43 (1), 64-79.
Lafford, B. (1995). Getting into, through, and out of a survival situation. In B. F. Freed (Ed.) Second language acquisition in a study abroad context (pp. 97-122). Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins.
Lafford, B. (2004). The effect of context of learning on the use of communication strategies by learners of Spanish as a second language. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 26 (2), 201-225.
Magnan, S. S. (1986). Assessing speaking proficiency in the undergraduate curriculum: Data from French. Foreign Language Annals, 19, 429-438.
Martin, J. R., & Rose, D. (2003). Working with discourse: Meaning beyond the clause. New York, NY: Continuum.
Martinsen R. A., Baker, W., Dewey, D. P., Bown, J. (2010) Exploring diverse settings for language acquisition and use: Comparing study abroad, service learning abroad, and foreign language housing. Applied Linguistics. 20. 45-69
Milton, J., & Meara, P. (1995). How periods abroad affect vocabulary growth in a foreign language. ITL Review of Applied Linguistics, 107-108, 17- 34.
Paige, R. M., Cohen, A. D., Kappler, B., Chi, J. C., & Lassegard, J. P. (2002). Maximizing study abroad: A student’s guide to strategies for language and culture learning and use. Twin City, MN: CARLA.
Pellegrino, V. A. (2005). Study abroad and second language use: Constructing the self. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Regan, V. (1995). The acquisition of sociolinguistic native speech norms: Effects of a year abroad on second language learners of French. In B. F. Freed (ed.). Second Language Acquisition in a Study Abroad Context. 245-267. Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins.
Regan, V. (1998). Sociolinguistics and language learning in a study abroad context.Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 4, 2. 61-90.
Regan, V. Howard, M., & I. Lemée (2009). The acquisition of sociolinguistic competence in a study abroad context. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.
Ritchie, J., & Lewis, J. (2003). Qualitative research practice: A guide for social science students and researchers. London: SAGE Publications Ltd.
Rivers, W. P. (1998). Is being there enough? The effects of homestay placements on language gain during study abroad. Foreign Language Annals, 31, 4. 492-500.
Segalowitz, N., & Freed, B. F. (2004). Context, contact, and cognition in oral fluency acquisition: learning Spanish in at home and study abroad contexts. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 26 (2), 173-199.
Schmidt-Rinehart, B. C., & Knight, S. M. (2004). The homestay component of study abroad: Three perspectives. Foreign Language Annals. 37, no. 2. 254-262.
Shively, R, L. (2010). From the virtual world to the real world: A model of pragmatics instruction for study abroad. Foreign Language Annals, 43 (1), 103-137.
Taguchi, N. (2008). Cognition, language contact, and the development of pragmatic comprehension in a study-abroad context. Language Learning, 58, 33-71.
Towell, R., Hawkins, R., & Bazergui, N. (1996). The development of fluency in advanced learners of French. Applied Linguistics, 17 (1), 84-119.
Wilkinson, S. (1998a). On the nature of immersion during study abroad: Some participant perspectives. Frontier: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 4, 121-138.
Wilkinson, S. (1998b). Study abroad from the participants’ perspective: a challenge to common beliefs. Foreign Language Annals, 31 (1), 23-39.
Wilkinson, S. (2002). The omnipresent classroom during summer study abroad: American students in conversation with their French hosts. Modern Language Journal, 86 (2), 157-173.
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Diao, W., Freed, B., & Smith, L. (2011). Confirmed Beliefs or False Assumptions? A Study of Home Stay Experiences in the French Study Abroad Context. Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 21(1), 109–142. https://doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v21i1.306
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