Harvey, L orcid.org/0000-0003-4726-4428 (2016) “I am Italian in the world”: A mobile student’s story of language learning and ideological becoming. Language and Intercultural Communication, 16 (3). pp. 368-383. ISSN 1470-8477
Abstract
This article theorises the relationship between language and intercultural learning from a Bakhtinian dialogic perspective, based on the language learning story of Federica, a mobile student in UK higher education (HE). I first outline the context of UK HE and its internationalisation agenda, discussing how research in this field has conceptualised language, intercultural communication (IC), and international students in terms of a totalising boundary between self and other. I link this to current concerns in IC regarding the philosophical underpinnings of the field, specifically the aporia created as a result of the totalising self/other relation in prevailing IC discourse (MacDonald & O’Regan, 2013). I then present a means of addressing this aporia through a Bakhtinian theorisation of the relationship between language and intercultural learning. This theorisation offers a relational perspective on the self and the other in which intercultural learning is a process of ideological becoming (Bakhtin, 1981) with the other, enacted in, with and through language, as illustrated in Federica’s story of learning English. The article concludes with a call for language and communicative practices to be placed at the heart of HE internationalisation agendas and for HE practitioners to recognise shared responsibility for intercultural communication.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Language and Intercultural Communication on 13 November, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2016.1168049 |
Keywords: | language learning; intercultural learning; higher education; mobile/international students; dialogism; ideological becoming |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Education (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 21 Jul 2016 14:40 |
Last Modified: | 13 Aug 2020 22:09 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2016.1168049 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/14708477.2016.1168049 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:99381 |