“It’s like I got a new pair of glasses”: Reflections on sense of self, home, and belonging among transnational students in short-term study abroad programs

M. Müller, Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education 9 (2024) 188–216.

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This study focuses on a specific group of sojourners that has thus far remained rather unexplored in the context of study-abroad research, namely, students with extensive prior experiences of living in, traveling to, and/or familial ties with target-language mediated communities. To this end, this study examines data obtained through episodic interviews with three American students, who grew up in close contact with German-speaking communities and studied abroad in Austria for four weeks. By means of thematic analysis, the pre-study abroad sojourn motives and reflections on sense of self, home, and belonging are contrasted with these students’ immediate and delayed post-study abroad accounts. The results shed light on both the challenges young adults grapple with due to their international biographies and the transformative effects students attribute to their short-term sojourns with regard to redefining who they are and what meaning different places of home and heritage have within their individual trajectories.
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Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education
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9
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2
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188-216
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Müller M. “It’s like I got a new pair of glasses”: Reflections on sense of self, home, and belonging among transnational students in short-term study abroad programs. Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education. 2024;9(2):188-216. doi:10.1075/sar.22024.mul
Müller, M. (2024). “It’s like I got a new pair of glasses”: Reflections on sense of self, home, and belonging among transnational students in short-term study abroad programs. Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education, 9(2), 188–216. https://doi.org/10.1075/sar.22024.mul
@article{Müller_2024, title={“It’s like I got a new pair of glasses”: Reflections on sense of self, home, and belonging among transnational students in short-term study abroad programs}, volume={9}, DOI={10.1075/sar.22024.mul}, number={2}, journal={Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education}, publisher={John Benjamins Publishing Company}, author={Müller, Mareike}, year={2024}, pages={188–216} }
Müller, Mareike. “‘It’s like I Got a New Pair of Glasses’: Reflections on Sense of Self, Home, and Belonging among Transnational Students in Short-Term Study Abroad Programs.” Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education 9, no. 2 (2024): 188–216. https://doi.org/10.1075/sar.22024.mul.
M. Müller, “‘It’s like I got a new pair of glasses’: Reflections on sense of self, home, and belonging among transnational students in short-term study abroad programs,” Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 188–216, 2024, doi: 10.1075/sar.22024.mul.
Müller, Mareike. “‘It’s like I Got a New Pair of Glasses’: Reflections on Sense of Self, Home, and Belonging among Transnational Students in Short-Term Study Abroad Programs.” Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education, vol. 9, no. 2, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024, pp. 188–216, doi:10.1075/sar.22024.mul.

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