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Sociopragmatic competence and second language acquisition: Learners of English in a study abroad context

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Reflecting today’s globalisation, student mobility has now become increasingly popular among university students. Such mobility programmes allow participants to expand their cultural and social knowledge of the target language community as well as to foster or learn another language during the study abroad (SA) experience. A number of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) studies situated within SA learning contexts have started to appear over the last three decades in order to analyse the linguistic development in the second language (L2) during a period of student mobility abroad. This Chapter will contribute to this research stream by focusing on the sociopragmatic competence in English as an L2 of five university students during their Erasmus programme in Ireland. In particular, their sociopragmatic competence will be analysed by focusing on their use over time of discourse markers (DMs) in the L2. The linguistic items under analysis were yeah, like, well, ehm, and were analysed longitudinally in order to investigate whether any differences were present over time in their frequency and use in learner language. Combining insights from the research domains of sociolinguistic variation in SLA and L2 Pragmatics, this contribution is an exploratory study aimed to investigate to what extent a temporary period of transnational mobility in Ireland affected learners’ use of DMs in L2 English upon completion of SA. Data were elicited with individual sociolinguistic interviews (Labov 984). The DMs under analysis were tracked over a period of about six months and were then compared to a baseline corpus of interviews elicited from Irish English native speakers.

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hal-04288403 , version 1 (16-11-2023)

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Giuditta Caliendo, Annarita Magliacane. Sociopragmatic competence and second language acquisition: Learners of English in a study abroad context. Caliendo, G.; Janssens, R.; Slembrouck, S.; Van Avermaet. Urban Multilingualism in Europe: Bridging the Gap between Language Policies and Language Practices, De Gruyter, pp.167-190, 2019, 9781501511295. ⟨10.1515/9781501503207-008⟩. ⟨hal-04288403⟩
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