Introduction : Social and cultural aspects of language learning in study abroad / Celeste Kinginger -- Researching whole people and whole lives / James A. Coleman -- Self-regulatory strategies of foreign language learners : from the classroom to study abroad and beyond / Heather Willis Allen -- "Opening up to the world"? Developing interculturality in an international field experience for ESL teachers / Elizabeth Smolcic -- Politics of identification in the use of lingua francas in student mobility to Finland and France / Fred Dervin -- An American in Paris : myth, desire, and subjectivity in one student's account of study abroad in France / Tim Wolcott -- Exploring the potential of high school homestays as a context for local engagement and negotiation of difference : Americans in China / Dali Tan & Celeste Kinginger -- The transformation of "a frog in the well" : a path to a more intercultural, global mindset / Jane Jackson -- "I joke you don't" : second language humor and intercultural identity construction / Maria Shardakova -- Getting over the hedge : acquisition of mitigating language in L2 Japanese / Noriko Iwasaki -- Identity and honorifics use in Korean study abroad / Lucien Brown -- A corpus-based study of vague language use by learners of Spanish in a study abroad context / Julieta Fernandez.