TY - BOOK ID - 5478495 TI - The acquisition of sociolinguistic competence in a study abroad context AU - Regan, Vera AU - Howard, Martin AU - Lemée, Isabelle PY - 2009 SN - 9781847691576 1847691579 9781847691569 1847691560 9781847691583 1847691587 128213583X 9786612135835 1788920724 PB - Bristol Multilingual Matters DB - UniCat KW - Langue seconde KW - Sociolinguistique. KW - Variation (Linguistique) KW - Études à l'étranger. KW - Français (Langue) KW - Acquisition. KW - Étude et enseignement KW - Allophones. KW - Foreign study. KW - French language -- Acquisition. KW - French language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers. KW - Language and languages -- Variation. KW - Second language acquisition. KW - Sociolinguistics. KW - Second language acquisition KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Language and languages KW - Foreign study KW - French language KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Philology & Linguistics KW - Variation KW - Foreign speakers KW - Study and teaching KW - Acquisition KW - Variation. KW - Foreign speakers. KW - Études à l'étranger. KW - Français (Langue) KW - Étude et enseignement KW - International study KW - Study abroad KW - Studying abroad KW - Characterology of speech KW - Language diversity KW - Language subsystems KW - Language variation KW - Linguistic diversity KW - Variation in language KW - Language and society KW - Society and language KW - Sociology of language KW - Second language learning KW - Social aspects KW - Sociological aspects KW - Education KW - Students, Foreign KW - Language and culture KW - Linguistics KW - Sociology KW - Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) KW - Language acquisition KW - L2 speaker. KW - SLA. KW - Second Language Acquisition. KW - Sociolinguistic Competence. KW - Study Abroad. KW - second language learner. KW - second language learning. KW - sociolinguistic variables. KW - sociolinguistics. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5478495 AB - This volume explores the relationship between 'study abroad' and the acquisition of 'sociolinguistic competence' - the ability to communicate in socially appropriate ways. The volume looks at language development and use during study abroad in France by examining patterns of variation in the speech of advanced L2 speakers. Within a variationist paradigm, fine-grained empirical analyses of speech illuminate choices the L2 speaker makes in relation to their new identity, gender patterns, closeness or distance maintained in the social context in which they find themselves. Using both cross-sectional and longitudinal data, four variable features of contemporary spoken French are analysed in a large population of advanced Irish-English speakers of French. This close-up picture provides empirical evidence by which to evaluate the wide-spread assumption that Study Abroad is highly beneficial for second language learning. ER -