dc.contributor.author | Mocanu, Vasilica | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-02-05T09:07:59Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-02-05T09:07:59Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-09-26 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1613-3668 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10366/155286 | |
dc.description.abstract | The present article examines the relationship between study abroad
and the construction of multilingual identities regarded as more marketable in the
neoliberal economy. The main objective is to provide an insight on student mobility
and dominant visions of the future in line with which languages are chosen to be
taught/learned at tertiary level and how this offer mirrors the economized perspective
adopted in the higher education system. It focuses on European higher-education
students participating in study abroad through the Erasmus program in three contexts
across Europe (Finland, Romania, and Catalonia). In the first place, the article delves
into the ways neoliberal discourses on the value of study abroad and the skills that
are expected to be acquired through the experience – this is, the type of individuals
that the participants might become – shape their decision to enroll in a sojourn abroad
in a particular context. Secondly, this article analyzes to what extent European youth
participating in study abroad eventually perceive they added to their identities the
desirable marketable skills they expected and how they consider this is going to
materialize in the future. By looking at how multilingual identities are constructed
through the Erasmus program, this study hypothesizes that study abroad is another
mechanism embedded in educational practices that respond to economic demands
in which the marketization of language skills plays a prominent role. | es_ES |
dc.language.iso | eng | es_ES |
dc.subject | commodification | es_ES |
dc.subject | identity | es_ES |
dc.subject | neoliberalism | es_ES |
dc.subject | study abroad | es_ES |
dc.title | “I know how to improve. You know what I mean?”. Neoliberalism and the development of multilingual identities through study abroad | es_ES |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es_ES |
dc.subject.unesco | 5802 Organización y Planificación de la Educación | es_ES |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2022-0088 | |
dc.relation.projectID | PID2021-124786OB-100 | es_ES |
dc.rights.accessRights | info:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccess | es_ES |
dc.journal.title | International Journal for the Sociology of Language | es_ES |
dc.volume.number | 283 | es_ES |
dc.page.initial | 25 | es_ES |
dc.page.final | 51 | es_ES |
dc.type.hasVersion | info:eu-repo/semantics/draft | es_ES |