TY - GEN N2 - This book examines the benefits of an Australian in-country study (ICS) in China programme and explores ways to maximise the short-term ICS experience in a multilingual space. The book employs an ecological perspective which has seldom been used to examine the study abroad context. It emphasises the importance of the space itself as an arena of interaction, belonging and power, where conduct and modes of communication are often regulated by political authorities and societal expectations. Specifically, the book focuses on the following: the extent to which the ICS facilitated interaction in different settings the way in which interaction during ICS contributed to language learning the degree in which the interaction during ICS contributed to culture learning and the role of identity in the learning process in the ICS. The main argument of the book is that while the ICS promoted multilingual learning space for in-class and out-of-class interactions, which further facilitated language and culture learning to a great extent, Australian students identities and self-concepts also played a core mediating role throughout individual learning trajectories. DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-00307-3 DO - doi AB - This book examines the benefits of an Australian in-country study (ICS) in China programme and explores ways to maximise the short-term ICS experience in a multilingual space. The book employs an ecological perspective which has seldom been used to examine the study abroad context. It emphasises the importance of the space itself as an arena of interaction, belonging and power, where conduct and modes of communication are often regulated by political authorities and societal expectations. Specifically, the book focuses on the following: the extent to which the ICS facilitated interaction in different settings the way in which interaction during ICS contributed to language learning the degree in which the interaction during ICS contributed to culture learning and the role of identity in the learning process in the ICS. The main argument of the book is that while the ICS promoted multilingual learning space for in-class and out-of-class interactions, which further facilitated language and culture learning to a great extent, Australian students identities and self-concepts also played a core mediating role throughout individual learning trajectories. T1 - Learning Chinese in a multilingual space:an ecological perspective on studying abroad / DA - 2022. CY - Cham, Switzerland : AU - Tong, Peiru. AU - Tsung, Linda T. H., VL - volume 41 CN - PL1065 PB - Springer, PP - Cham, Switzerland : PY - 2022. ID - 1447057 KW - Chinese language KW - Multilingual education. SN - 9783031003073 SN - 3031003071 TI - Learning Chinese in a multilingual space:an ecological perspective on studying abroad / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-031-00307-3 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-031-00307-3 ER -