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" Becoming Global Elites Through Transnational Language Learning?: The Case of Korean Early Study Abroad in Singapore "
Bae, Sohee; Park, Joseph Sung-Yul
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926020
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LA53j0j5gd
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English
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Bae, Sohee; Park, Joseph Sung-Yul
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Becoming Global Elites Through Transnational Language Learning?: The Case of Korean Early Study Abroad in Singapore [Article]\ Bae, Sohee; Park, Joseph Sung-Yul
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L2 Journal
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8/2
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2016
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Since the late 1990s, early study abroad (ESA) in English-speaking countries has been a popular educational strategy for pre-university Korean students to acquire important language skills such as global English, which is imagined to help them prepare for the competition in global educational and occupational market. However, as ESA, commonly known as jogi yuhak, became a prominent educational strategy among Korean middle class Korean, the destination for Korean Study Abroad began to diversify, showing significant increase of Korean Study Abroad in non-Western countries. For instance, Singapore has emerged as a new site for ESA, due to its multilingual environment which facilitates the learning of global language of English as well as additional languages such as Mandarin. What, then, are the implications of such diversification of ESA for the goals of and beliefs about study abroad? This paper aims to answer this question by examining the language learning practices and ideologies for three Korean ESA families in Singapore, based on participant observation and interview data drawn from a 2.5-year ethnographic study.
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