Language Travel Supply: The Language Learning Programme

AbstractThis exploratory study provides an overview on gains in sociolinguistic and pragmatic competences drawing upon research carried out in this field in the last decades. It also offers an original, detailed account of a fundamental constituent of the language tourism product: the language-learning component, which encompasses the educational input and the language learning complements. Thus, a key aspect of the language tourism market system will be depicted from the perspective of the supply. This model aims at constituting a conceptual framework for subsequent research on the role within the language tourism experience of different study abroad program design features