Researching whole people and whole lives
Researching whole people and whole lives
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10.1075/lllt.37.02col
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发表时间：
2013-07
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通讯作者：
James A. Coleman
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作者：
James A. Coleman
在追踪作者自己对出国留学的新见解时，本章将这一现象的关键方面置于背景之中。它质疑被广泛接受的方法和文书，并问我们在试图作出重大概括时，是否有时歪曲了现实，缩小了我们的定义和衡量标准，对关键信息不予考虑，甚至不予说明。本章对“留学背景”这一表述的合法性提出质疑，认为背景和个体差异以及社交网络共同促成了留学经历的本质流动性和复杂性。最近一项长期研究的内容说明了一个更全面的观点。
In tracing the author’s own emerging insights into study abroad, this chapter contextualises key aspects of the phenomenon. It queries widely accepted approaches and instruments, and asks whether, in attempting to achieve significant generalizations, we have sometimes distorted reality by narrowing our definitions and our measures, and by leaving crucial information unconsidered or even unstated. The chapter challenges the legitimacy of the expression “the study abroad context”, arguing that both contextual and individual variation contribute, together with social networks, to the essential fluidity and complexity of the study abroad experience. Elements of a recent long-term study illustrate a more comprehensive perspective.