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Self-positioning in a host community: Longitudinal insights from study abroad and migrant students

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This chapter aims to examine the evolution of self-positioning over a period of time abroad and to make links between socialisation dynamics and the use of pronominal reference in L2 discourse. In particular, it investigates the links between the evolving social networks of resident abroad students – based on Coleman's model of social circles – and self-positioning regarding the different communities they refer to, as manifested in their pronoun use in L2. It intersects interview data from two longitudinal databases in French and English – the SOFRA and the PROLINGSA corpora, respectively – featuring student populations from different sociocultural profiles, migration contexts and expectations regarding the host society: nine Syrian refugees in France, and two French Erasmus students in Ireland and the UK. Our data reveal common patterns of socialisation in both student groups with a shift from initial socialisation with co-nationals to the circle of international students, which confirms Coleman's observation that students abroad have limited interaction with locals even after a long time of residence. However, unlike the Erasmus students whose core social network remains strongly international, Syrian students evolve from a strong anchorage within the co-nationals circle to increasing affordances to meet the host society members as well as international community members. The observed differences between the two student profiles highlight the need to further study the factors of L2 socialisation and self-positioning development and to carry out research taking into account the diversity of student profiles in the university environment.

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Inès Saddour, Pascale Leclercq. Self-positioning in a host community: Longitudinal insights from study abroad and migrant students. Cyrille Granget; Isabel Repiso; Guillaume Fon Sing. Languages, creoles, varieties: From emergence to transmission, Language Science Press, 2023, EuroSLA Studies, 978-3-96110-430-7. ⟨10.5281/zenodo.10280598⟩. ⟨hal-04415839⟩
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