‘I came as a visitor, but I stayed': an ERASMUS-Sojourn in an ELF country

This study qualitatively explores how studying abroad in an English as a lingua franca context promotes student-sojourners’ intercultural awareness (ICA) taking a longitudinal perspective. A group of Catalan/Spanish bilinguals and Turkish-L1 speakers were interviewed regarding their past ERASMUS exp...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Köylü, Zeynep, Borràs Andrés, Judith
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:10459.1/468935
Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2023.2286471
https://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/468935
http://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/468935
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:ELF
ERASMUS
Intercultural awareness
Community of practice
Study abroad
Descripción
Sumario:This study qualitatively explores how studying abroad in an English as a lingua franca context promotes student-sojourners’ intercultural awareness (ICA) taking a longitudinal perspective. A group of Catalan/Spanish bilinguals and Turkish-L1 speakers were interviewed regarding their past ERASMUS experiences in terms of ICA following a stimulated recall protocol and later participated in an L1-based focus group interview. The results foreground that ELF use contributed to the conceptualisation of ERASMUS as an ELF community of practice while the participants developed a supranational identity with traces of ICA, which was maintained as a long-term effect of their semester-long sojourn.