YEAR ABROAD CONFERENCE 2019 –PROGRAMME

9.15-10.00 Registration - Liberty Building foyer upper floor (adjacent to Moot Court lecture theatre)

10.00-10.15 Welcome: Professor Manuel Barcia, Faculty Dean of International Affairs, University of Leeds

10.15-11.00 Keynote: Professor Ros Mitchell, University of Southampton ’I’m a languages graduate, what next?’ The long term impact of the year abroad on graduate identities Moot Court Lecture Theatre

11.00-11.15 Coffee break 11.15-12.15 Parallel sessions 1 Scope and Aims (presentations) Year Abroad preparation and institutional Mental health and well-being (presentations) Room: 1.08 support (presentations) Room: 1.11 Chair: Kazuki Morimoto Room: 1.09 Chair: Ruba Khamam Chair: Melissa Schuessler Going global: transitioning from a “Year Embedding Student Well-Being in Year-Abroad Abroad” to an “International Placement Year” Managing Partnerships in Uncertain Times Preparation and Support Isabelle Baron and Sascha Stollhans Helen Burdette and Liz Simpson Aziza Zaher and Roger Ravanelli University of Lancaster University of Leeds Durham University

Encouraging students to value what we value: Preparation for learning on study abroad: Communicating issues of students in relation to shaping student learning abroad disciplinary focus and learning cultures mental health and identifying blind spots of Simon McKinnon Chloe Wallace support networks on study abroad Durham University University of Leeds Takako Amano University of Central Lancashire

12.15-13.15 Parallel sessions 2 Student Adaptation (presentations) Year Abroad preparation (presentations) Mental health and Well being Room: 1.08 Room: 1.09 (Workshop) Chair: Ying Peng Chair: Clare Wright Room: 1.11

Challenges in Adaptation and Adjustment of ‘The Departure Lounge’: Preparing Students for Mental health, higher education, and the year International and EU Students at the Early- a Year Abroad abroad sojourn Stage Becky Kidner Anne-Charlotte Husson and Damien Hall Hanh Pho University of Leeds (workshop leaders) Newcastle University Newcastle University

Teaching survival phrases in L2 Chinese: How to (not) prepare students for the Year Longitudinal benefits of pre-YA instruction Abroad Nicola Halenko and Jiayi Wang Claire Reid University of Central Lancashire University of Portsmouth

13.15-14.00 Lunch and posters

Foreign Language Learners’ Acculturation Experiences in Chinese and British Study Abroad Programmes Rui He, University of Glasgow

Perceived changes to students sense of self-identity/agency as the result of an International exchange study abroad programme David Channon and Norlene Conway, Royal Holloway, University of London

14.00-15.00 Parallel sessions 3 Student Experiences/Effects of YA Year Abroad preparation (presentations) Year Abroad institutional support (presentations) Room: 1.09 (presentations) Room: 1.08 Chair: Clare Wright Room: 1.11 Chair: Juan Muñoz López Chair: Ruba Khamam The student expectation Journey from SA back Linguistic and Personality Change as a result home The key role of the year abroad tutor in of a Temporary Sojourn Ying Peng and Clare Wright supporting students, managing their expectations Ian Moore University of Leeds and preparing them to have a fruitful study Durham University abroad experience. Ruba Khamam The Development of Mediation Skills during Study Abroad: University of Glasgow, College of University of Leeds the Year Abroad Placement Social Sciences Improving the Experience for Incoming Exchange Isabel Molina-Vidal & Juan Muñoz López Juliet Westwood Students University of Leeds University of Glasgow Tamsin Embleton Newcastle University 15.00-15.15 Coffee break

15.15-16.15 Parallel sessions 3 Student Involvement/ Employability Student Experiences/Effects of YA Year Abroad attitudes (presentations) (presentations) (presentations) Room: 1.11 Room: 1.08 Room: 1.09 Chair: Clare Wright Chair: Ying Peng Chair: Kazuki Morimoto Attitudes towards the study abroad and their Supporting students to support other students: Facilitating Reflection on Year Abroad Learning - impact on the student experience: the case of UK the role of peer mentoring on the Year Abroad Digital media and Portfolio Module language students in Italy David Lees and Izzy Gatward Siobhan Martell University of Warwick University College Cork Giorgia Faraoni University of Leeds Nurturing interaction between pre- and post- YA students: from presentation to teaching L2 From ‘Predecisional’ to ‘Postdecisional’: An language as pre-YA preparation for the second Examination of the Fluctuation of Motivational The importance of emotions: pre, during and post year students and employability development Factors in Students of Japanese as Seen in Year Year Abroad (YA) for the fourth year students Abroad Essays Fumiko Narumi-Munro and Mihoko Pooley Emine Cakir and Julide Inozu University of Edinburgh Martin Ward and Mika Takewa University of Oxford University of Leeds

16.15-16.30 Round Table: current challenges, future themes. Closing remarks Room: Moot Court lecture theatre