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Language plays an essential role in how we portray our personalities. Through social interaction, others develop a picture of us based on our linguistic cues. However, when we interact in a foreign language and in a new country, limitations in linguistic and cultural knowledge can make self-presentation a more difficult task. This book explores the problems faced by language students embarking on 'study abroad' programmes, spending time in a foreign country and having to interact - and express their personalities - in a second language. Drawing on her extensive work with students, Valerie Pellegrino Aveni explores the factors that complicate self-presentation and the strategies students use for overcoming these, looking in particular at issues of anxiety, control, age, gender, risk-taking and self-esteem. Offering rich insights into the study abroad experience, this book will be an invaluable resource for professionals in second language acquisition, and for teachers and students preparing for study abroad.

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Language linguistics Psycholinguistics

• Full title: Study Abroad and Second Language Use
• Subtitle: Constructing the Self
• Author: Valerie A. Pellegrino Aveni
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 202
• EAN: 9780521827669
• ISBN: 0521827663
• ID: 02045558
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 442 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 10. March 2005

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