TY - BOOK ID - 13935971 TI - Social and cultural aspects of language learning in study abroad PY - 2013 VL - 37 SN - 9789027271839 9027271836 9789027213150 9027213151 9789027213167 902721316X PB - Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, DB - UniCat KW - Tweedetaalverwerving KW - Taal en talen KW - Studeren in het buitenland KW - Taal en cultuur KW - Interculturele communicatie KW - Second language acquisition. KW - Foreign study KW - Language and languages KW - Intercultural communication. KW - Language and culture. KW - didactiek voor anderstaligen KW - sociale aspecten KW - Social aspects. KW - Study and teaching KW - Foreign speakers. KW - Tweedetaalverwerving. KW - Taal en cultuur. KW - Interculturele communicatie. KW - didactiek voor anderstaligen. KW - sociale aspecten. KW - Foreign study -- Social aspects. KW - Language and languages -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers. KW - Second language acquisition KW - Intercultural communication KW - Language and culture KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Philology & Linguistics KW - Social aspects KW - Foreign speakers KW - Culture and language KW - Cross-cultural communication KW - Foreign languages KW - Languages KW - International study KW - Study abroad KW - Studying abroad KW - Second language learning KW - Culture KW - Communication KW - Cross-cultural orientation KW - Cultural competence KW - Multilingual communication KW - Technical assistance KW - Anthropology KW - Ethnology KW - Information theory KW - Meaning (Psychology) KW - Philology KW - Linguistics KW - Education KW - Students, Foreign KW - Language acquisition KW - Anthropological aspects KW - Sociale aspecten. KW - Didactiek voor anderstaligen. KW - Foreign language study KW - Language and education KW - Language schools KW - Foreign study - Social aspects KW - Language and languages - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers KW - Language and languages Study and teaching KW - Study and teaching. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:13935971 AB - This chapter seeks to demonstrate some of the potential contributions of a corpus-based approach to study abroad research. Drawing on the Spanish Learner Language Oral Corpora, the present analysis examines a set of vague expressions known as general extenders (GEs) (Overstreet 1999) utilized by undergraduate English L1 learners after a year abroad. Specifically, the analysis focuses on patterns emergent from the concordancing analysis of learner language production alongside four exploratory case studies of learners' motives and dispositions towards their study abroad experience. The discussi ER -