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Wendong Li; Yang Gong – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
Studying abroad entails international students' identity (trans)formation and social network development, but individuals' decisions and choices while engaging in these processes remain underexplored. Informed by the notion of agency in second language socialization theory, this longitudinal case study examined the interplay of identity and social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Second Language Learning, Social Networks
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Michal B. Paradowski; Nicole Whitby; Michal Czuba; Piotr Bródka – Language Learning, 2024
Using computational Social Network Analysis (SNA), this longitudinal study investigates the development of the interaction network and its influence on the second language (L2) gains of a complete cohort of 41 U.S. sojourners enrolled in a 3-month intensive study-abroad Arabic program in Jordan. Unlike extant research, our study focuses on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Social Networks, Second Language Learning